Nothing can be done without a revolutionary army."] [Footnote 33158: Mercier, "Paris Pendant la Revolution," I., 357.] [Footnote 33159: Hua, 197.

I do not find in any printed or manuscript document but one case of resistance, that of the brothers Chaperon, in the hamlet of Leges, near Sens, who declare that they have no wheat except for their own use, and who defend themselves by the use of a gun.
The gendarmerie not being strong enough to overcome them, the tocsin is sounded and the National Guard of Sens and the neighborhood is summoned; bringing cannon, the affair ends with the burning of the house.

The two brothers are killed.

Before being overcome, however, they had struck down the captain of the National Guard of Sens and killed or wounded nearly forty of their assailants.

A surviving brother and a sister are guillotined.