several companies of fresh volunteers. A shout is heard, "Death to
the monopolists! death to Maussion! we must have his head!" They
pillage his hotel: many of them become intoxicated and fall asleep
in his cellar. The revenue offices, the toll-gates of the town, the
excise office, all buildings in which the royal revenue is
collected, are wrecked. Immense bonfires are lighted in the streets
and on the old market square; furniture, clothes, papers, kitchen
utensils, are all thrown in pell-mell, while carriages are dragged
out and tumbled into the Seine. It is only when the town-hall is
attacked that the National Guard, beginning to be alarmed, makes up
its mind to seize Bordier and some others. The following morning,
however, at the shout of Carabo, and led by Jourdain, the prison is
forced, Bordier set free, and the intendant's residence, with its
offices, is sacked a second time. When, finally, the two rascals
are taken and led to the scaffold, the populace is so strongly in
their favor as to require the pointing of loaded cannon on them to
keep them down. -- At Besançon,[20] on the 13th of August, the
leaders consist of the servant of an exhibitor of wild animals, two
goal-birds of whom one has already been branded in consequence of a
riot, and a number of "inhabitants of ill-repute," who, towards
evening, spread through the town along with the soldiers. The
gunners insult the officers they meet, seize them by the throat and
want to throw them into the Doubs. Others go to the house of the
commandant, M. de Langeron, and demand money of him; on his refusing
to give it they tear off their cockades and exclaim, "We too belong
to the Third-Estate!" in other words, that they are the masters:
subsequently they demand the head of the intendant, M. de Caumartin,
forcibly enter his dwelling and break up his furniture. On the
following day the rabble and the soldiers enter the coffee-houses,
the convents, and the inns, and demand to be served with wine and