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information on the civil, moral and political state of the 

 district, "in order to bring a remedy," and to administer 

 the oath of allegiance to all administrative and judicial 

 bodies. Jean began operations without delay, and his 

 report, which was kept in journal form and embraces 

 the period from January 19 to September 10, 1793, is 

 an interesting document ; it covers fifty-one large fools- 

 cap pages, written now in a fine and again in a bold, 

 regular hand, in the course of which his characteristic 

 signature 6 occurs no less than twenty-two times, each 



ONE OF JEAN AUDUBON'S SIGNATURES IX HIS REPORT TO THE DIRECTORY, 1793. 



From the original in the archives of the prefecture at Nantes. 



section of the report having been signed as completed. 

 In one section of this journal he wrote: "Our opera- 

 tions having been finished, we assembled around the tree 

 of liberty, and there sang the hymn of the Marseillaise, 

 which was interrupted with frequent shouts of 'Vive la 

 republique!/ 'Vive la nation!/ and more than one charge 

 of musketry." 



Jean Audubon with eight others was charged with or- 

 ganizing the National Guard in the canton of Pellerin, 

 and ordered to accompany the detachment that marched 

 to the relief of Pornic, March 27, 1793. The Citizen 

 was busy also in other directions. He said in his report: 



a During the Revolution Jean Audubon always added to his signature 

 the cabalistic sign of three dots between parallel lines, which possibly 

 stood for the three watchwords of the Republic — "Libertc, EgaUte, Fra- 

 ternite." 



