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 X. IN THE PROVINCES.

list of persons executed in Paris is complete, so that English names can be easily extracted, but of many who perished in the provinces there is no known record. Documents have been lost, destroyed, or abstracted by men ashamed of their revolutionary antecedents or by their descendants. Louis Blanc imagined that only eleven or twelve provincial tribunals existed, whereas Berryat St. Prix has shown that there were no less than 149. If the list of victims is very defective, still more so is the list of prisoners. Departmental and municipal archives are believed, indeed, to contain many documents on this subject, but the process of cataloguing has scarcely been begun. The last official report mentions only nineteen departments in which there is as yet any possibility of knowing what documents exist subsequent to 1790. Histories of the Revolution in particular departments or regions