Troyes had just tortured Huez after the fashion of Hurons, while
those of Caen did worse; Major de Belzance, not less innocent, and
under sworn protection,[24] was cut to pieces like Laperouse in the
Fiji Islands, and a woman ate his heart.

VI.


Taxes are no longer paid. - Devastation of the Forests. - The new
game laws.

It is, under such circumstances, possible to foretell whether taxes
come in, and whether municipalities that sway about in every popular
breeze will have the authority to collect the odious revenues. --
Towards the end of September,[25] I find a list of thirty-six
committees or municipal bodies which, within a radius of fifty
leagues around Paris, refuse to ensure the collection of taxes. One
of them tolerates the sale of contraband salt, in order not to
excite a riot. Another takes the precaution to disarm the employees
in the excise department. In a third the municipal officers were
the first to provide themselves with contraband salt and contraband
tobacco.

At Peronne and at Ham, the order having come to restore the toll-
houses, the people destroy the soldiers' quarters, conduct all the
employees to their homes, and order them to leave within twenty-four
hours, under penalty of death. After twenty months' resistance
Paris will end the matter by forcing the National Assembly to give
in and by obtaining the final suppression of its octroi.[26] -- Of
all the creditors whose hand each one felt on his shoulders, that of