The things we do!

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Sometimes, and this is the rarest case,[44] the officials do their
duty to the end, and perish. In this same town, six months later,
Simoneau, the mayor, having refused to cut down the price of wheat,
is beaten with iron-pointed sticks, and his corpse is riddled with
balls by the murderers. - Municipal bodies must take heed how they
undertake to stem the torrent; the, slightest opposition will soon
be at the expense of their lives. In Touraine,[45] "as the
publication of the tax-rolls takes place, riots break out against
the municipal authorities; they are forced to surrender the rolls
they have drawn up, and their papers are torn up." And still more,
"they kill, they assassinate the municipal authorities." In that
large commune men and women "beat and kick them with their fists and
sabots. . . . The mayor is laid up after it, and the procureur
of the commune died between nine and ten o'clock in the morning.
V?teau, a municipal officer, received the last sacrament this
morning ;" the rest have fled, being constantly threatened with
death and incendiarism.


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