long as the salt-tax exists.]

[Footnote 1328: "Archives Nationales," F7 3253 (Letter of September 8,
1789).]

[Footnote 1329: Arthur Young, September 30th. "It is being said that
every rusty gun in Provence is at work, killing all sorts of birds;
the shot has fallen five or six times in my chaise and about my
ears."--Beugnot, I.142.--"Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. 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. On the 31st
of July, a rumor is spread that the brigands are coming. On the 1st of
August the peasants arm themselves. "They amuse themselves by drinking,
awaiting the arrival of the brigands; the excitement increases to such
an extent as to make them believe that M. le Comte d'Espinchal had
arrived in disguise the evening before at Massiac, that he was the
author of the troubles disturbing the province at this time, and that he
was concealed in his chateau." On the strength of this shots are fired
into the windows, and there are searches, etc.]

[Footnote 1331: "Archives Nationales," D, XXIX, I, Letter of Etienne
Fermier, Naveinne, September 18th (it is possible that the author,
for the sake of caution, took a fictitious name).--The manuscript
correspondence of M. Boulle, deputy of Pontivy, to his constituents,
is a type of this declamatory and incendiary writing.--Letter of the
consuls, priests, and merchants of Puy-en-Velay, September 16th.--" The
Ancient Regime," p. 396.]

[Footnote 1332: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. 1. Letter of M.
Despretz-Montpezat, a former artillery officer, July 24th (with several
other signatures). On the same day the alarm bell is sounded In fifty
villages on the rumor spreading that 7,000 brigands, English and Breton,
were invading the country.]

[Footnote 1333: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. Letter of
Briand-Delessart, August 1st (domiciliary visits to the Carmelites
of Angouleme where it is pretended that Mme. de Polignac has just
arrived.--Beugnot, I. 140.--Arthur Young, July 20th, etc.--Buchez and
Roux, IV. 166. Letter of Mamers, July 24th; of