The things we do!

On the 7th of June 1788, at Grenoble, tiles rain down on the heads
of the soldiery, and the military force is powerless. At Rennes, to
put down the rebellious city, an army and after this a permanent
camp of four regiments of infantry and two of cavalry, under the
command of a Marshal of France, is required.[6] - The following
year, when the Parliaments now side with the privileged class, the
disturbances again begin, but this time against the Parliaments. In
February 1789, at Besan?on and at Aix, the magistrates are hooted
at, chased in the streets, besieged in the town hall, and obliged to
conceal themselves or take to flight. -- If such is the disposition
in the provincial capitals, what must it be in the capital of the
kingdom? For a start, in the month of August, 1788, after the
dismissal of Brienne and Lamoignon, the mob, collected on the Place
Dauphine, constitutes itself judge, burns both ministers in effigy,
disperses the watch, and resists the troops: no sedition, as bloody
as this, had been seen for a century.


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