Guillin-Dumoutet
He would be nothing but a hostage there. Alone against thousands,
sole survivor and representative of an abolished r?gime which all
detest, it is the noble against whom everybody turns whenever a
political shock seems to shake the new r?gime. He is at least
disarmed, as he might be dangerous, and, in these popular
executions, brutal instincts and appetites break loose like a bull
that dashes through a door and rages through a dwelling-house. In
the same department, some months later, on the news arriving of the
arrest of the King at Varennes, "all nonjuring[13] priests and ci-
devant nobles are exposed to the horrors of persecution." Bands
forcibly enter houses to seize arms: Commarin, Grosbois, Montculot,
Chaudenay, Cr?anc?, Toisy, Chatellenot, and other houses are thus
visited, and several are sacked. During the night of June 26-27,
1791, at the chateau of Cr?anc? "there is pillaging throughout; the
mirrors are broken, the pictures are torn up, and the doors are
broken down.
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