them money, generally five francs each person,
and sometimes ten, twenty, and forty francs." Others tear down or
pillage the chateaux of Rouesque, Rode, Marcoles, and Vitrac and drag
the municipal officers along with them. "We, the mayor and municipal
officers of the parish of Vitrac, held a meeting yesterday, March 22,
following the example of our neighboring parishes on the occasion of the
demolition of the chateaux. We marched at the head of our national guard
and that of Salvetat to the said chateaux. We began by hoisting the
national flag and to demolish... The national guard of Boisset, eating
and drinking without stint, entered the chateau and behaved in the most
brutal manner; for whatever they found in their way, whether clocks,
mirrors, doors, closets, and finally documents, all were made way
with. They even sent off forty of the men to a patriotic village in the
vicinity. They forced the inmates of every house to give them money, and
those who refused were threatened with death." Besides this the national
guard of Boisset carried off the furniture of the chateau.--There is
something burlesque in the conflicts of the municipalities with the
Jacobin expeditions (letter of the municipal officers of Cottines to the
Directory of St. Louis, March 26). "We are very glad to inform you that
there is a crowd in our parish, amongst which are many belonging to
neighboring parishes; and that they have visited the house of sieur
Tossy and a sum of money of which we do not know the amount is demanded,
and that they will not leave without that sum so that they cam have
something to live on, these people being assembled solely to maintain
the constitution and give greater eclat to the law."]

[Footnote 2455: Mercure de France, numbers for Jan. 1 and 14, 1792
(articles by Mallet du Pan).--" Archives Nationales," F7, 3185, 3186.
Letter of the president of the district of Laon (Aisne) to the Minister,
Feb. 8, 1792: "With respect to the nobles and priests, any mention of
them as trying to sow discord among us indicates a desire to spread
fear. All they ask is tranquility and the regular payment of their
pensions."--De Dampmartin, II. 63 (on the evacuation of Arles, April,
1792). On the illegal approach of the Marseilles army, M. de Dampmartin,
military commander, orders the Arlesians to rise in a body. Nobody comes
forward. Wives hide away their husbands' guns in the night. Only one
hundred volunteers are found to act with the re