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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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Remiremont is only saved by a detachment of dragoons.

Eight hundred men attack the chateau of Uberbruenn.

The abbey of Neubourg is taken by storm.

At Guebwiller, on the 31st of July, five hundred peasants, subjects of the abbey of Murbach, make a descent on the abbot's palace and on the house of the canons.

Cupboards, chests, beds, windows, mirrors, frames, even the tiles of the roof and the hinges of the casements are hacked to pieces: "They kindle fires on the beautiful inlaid floors of the apartments, and there burn up the library and the title-deeds." The abbot's superb carriage is so broken up that not a wheel remains entire.
"Wine streams through the cellars.


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