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
pieces." -- At La Seyne, the mob, led by a peasant, assembles by
beat of drum. Some women fetch a bier, and set it down before the
house of a leading bourgeois, telling him to prepare for death, and
that "they will have the honor of burying him." He escapes; his
house is pillaged, as well as the bureau of the flour-tax. The
following day, the chief of the band "obliges the principal
inhabitants to give him a sum of money to indemnify, as he states
it, the peasants who have abandoned their work," and devoted the day
to serving the public.
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