Travelers are put to ransom.

Thieves, robbers, and returned convicts, at the head of armed bands, seize whatever they can lay their hands on.

Cupidity becomes inflamed by such examples; on domains which are deserted and in a state of confusion, where there is nothing to indicate a master's presence, all seems to lapse to the first comer.

A small farmer of the neighborhood has carried away wine and returns the following day in search of hay.

All the furniture of a chateau in Dauphin is removed, even to the hinges of the doors, by a large reinforcement of carts.--" It is the war of the poor against the rich," says a deputy, "and, on the 3rd of August, the Committee on Reports declares to the National Assembly "that no kind of property has been spared." In Franche-Comte, "nearly forty chateaux and seignorial mansions have been pillaged or burnt."[1344] From Lancers to Gray about three out of five chateaux are sacked.