Rochussen’s assessment of the situation after it took place was very dif- ferent than it had been a week earlier. He wrote Baud the next day, ex- pressing outrage that his permission for a temperate meeting of a few well- placed citizens in a private house turned into what he called “a public assembly of many hundreds of persons of different rank, unknown to one another; some with the explicit aim of discussing matters of state and the basic principles of governance.”84 That same day, he banned all public meetings “concerning matters of government and of common interest,” giving notice that armed force would be used if his order was disobeyed.

Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ E…, loc. 506