anor, M. Tassin, who can only redeem himself by a contribution of 1,600
livres and the pillaging of his cellars.]

[Footnote 1344: Letter of the Count de Courtivron.--Arthur Young, July
31st.--Buchez and Roux, II. 243.--Mercure de France, August 15, 1789
(sitting of the 8th, discourse of a deputy from Dauphine.)--Mermet,
"Histoire de la Ville de Vienne," 445--" Archives Nationales," ibid.
(Letter of the commission of the States of Dauphiny, July 31st.)--"The
list of burnt or devastated chateaux is immense." The committee already
cites sixteen of them.--Puthod de la Maison-Rouge, ibid.: "Were all
devastated places to be mentioned, it would be necessary to cite the
whole province" (Letter from Macon). "They have not the less destroyed
most of the chateaux and bourgeois dwellings, either burning them and or
else tearing them down."]

[Footnote 1345: Lally-Tollendal, "Second Letter to my Constituents,"
104.]

[Footnote 1346: Doniol, "La Revolution et la Feodalite," p.60 (a few
days after the 4th of August).--"Archives Nationales," H. 784. Letters
of M. de Langeron, military commander at Besancon, October 16th and
18th.--Ibid. , D. XXIX. I. Letter of the same, September 3rd.--Arthur
Young (in Provence, at the house of Baron de la Tour-d'Aignes). "The
baron is an enormous sufferer by the Revolution; a great extent of
country which belonged in absolute right to his ancestors, has been
granted for quit-rents, ceus, and other feudal payments, so that there
is no comparison between the lands retained and those thus granted by
his family. . . . The solid payments which the Assembly have declared
to be redeemable are every hour falling to nothing, without a shadow
of recompense. . . The situation of the nobility in this country is
pitiable; they are under apprehensions that nothing will be left them,
but simply such houses as the mob allows to stand unburned; that the
small farmers will retain their farms without paying the landlord his
half of the produce; and that, in case of such a refusal, there is
actually neither law nor authority in the country to prevent it. This
chateau, splendid even in ruins, with the fortune and lives of the
owners, is at the mercy of an armed rabble."]

CHAPTER IV. PARIS.

I.--Paris.

Powerlessness and discords of the authorities.--The people,
king.

The powerlessness, indeed, of the heads of the Government, and the
lack of discipline among all its subordinates, are much