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).