(Letter by a volunteer of Orleans.) "On the 15th of August, eighty-eight ruffians, calling themselves reapers, present themselves at Bascon, in Beauce, and, the next day, at a chateau in the neighborhood, where they demand within an hour the head of the son of the lord of the manor, 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.

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