in price the crowd shout, "Vive le Roi, vive M. Barras !" -- One
must yield to brute force. But the inconvenience is great for,
through the suppression of the flour-tax, the towns have no longer a
revenue. On the other hand, as they are obliged to indemnify the
butchers and bakers, Toulon, for instance, incurs a debt of 2,500
livres a day.

In this state of disorder, woe to those who are under suspicion of
having contributed, directly or indirectly, to the evils, which the
people endure! At Toulon a demand is made for the head of the mayor,
who signs the tax-list, and of the keeper of the records. They are
trodden under foot, and their houses are ransacked. At Manosque,
the Bishop of Sisteron, who is visiting the seminary, is accused of
favoring a monopolist. On his way to his carriage, on foot, he is
hooted and menaced. He is first pelted with mud, and then with
stones. The consuls in attendance, and the sub-delegate, who come
to his assistance, are mauled and repulsed. Meanwhile, some of the
most furious begin, before his eyes, "to dig a ditch to bury him
in." Protected by five or six brave fellows, amidst a volley of
stones, and wounded on the head and on many parts of his body, he
succeeds in reaching his carriage. He is finally only saved because
the horses, which are likewise stoned, run away. Foreigners,
Italians, bandits, are mingled with the peasants and artisans, and
expressions are heard and acts are seen which indicate a
jacquerie.[30] "The most excited said to the bishop, 'we are poor
and you are rich, and we mean to have all your property.'"[31]
Elsewhere, "the seditious mob exacts contributions from all people
in good circumstances. At Brignolles, thirteen houses are pillaged
from top to bottom, and thirty others partly half. -- At Aupt, M.
de Montferrat, in defending himself, is killed and "hacked to