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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, 1798, 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® occurs no less than twenty-two times, each 
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ONE OF JEAN AUDUBON’S SIGNATURES IN HIS REPORT TO THE DIRECTORY, 1793. 
From the original in the archives of the préfecture 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 
république!,; ‘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, 1798. The Citizen 
was busy also in other directions. He said in his report: 
®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—“Liberté, Egalité, Fra- 
ternité.” 
