I.Letter of the Chevalier d'Allonville, September 8, 1789 (Near Bar-sur-Aube).

"The peasants go in armed bands into the woods belonging to the Abbey of Trois-Fontaines, which they cut down.

They saw up the oaks and transport them on wagons to Pont-Saint-Dizier, where they sell them.

In other places they fish in the ponds and break the embankments."] [Footnote 1330: "Archives Nationales," D.XXIX.1.

Letter of the assessor of the police of Saint-Flour, October 3, 1789.