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In other places, in the districts of Saint-?tienne and Montbrison,
"the trees belonging to the proprietors are carried away with
impunity, and the walls of their grounds and terraces are
demolished, the complainants being threatened with death or with the
sight of the destruction of their dwellings." Near Paris, around
Montargis, Nemours, and Fontainebleau, a number of parishes refuse
to pay the tithes and ground-rent (champart) which the Assembly has
a second time sanctioned; gibbets are erected and the collectors are
threatened with hanging, while, in the neighborhood of Tonnerre, a
mob of debtors fire upon the body of police which comes to enforce
the claims. - Near Amiens, the Comtesse de la Mire,[60] on her
estate of Davencourt, is visited by the municipal authorities of the
village, who request her to renounce her right to ground-rent
(champart) and thirds (tiers). She refuses and they insist, and she
refuses again, when they inform her that " some misfortune will
happen to her.
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