- Around Lyons,[14] under the same
pretext and at the same date, similar mobs perform similar
visitations, and, on all these occasions, "the rent-rolls are burnt,
and houses are pillaged and set on fire. Municipal authority,
organized for the security of property, is in many hands but one
facility more for its violation. The National Guard seems to be
armed merely for the protection of robbery and disorder." - For
more than thirty years, M. de Chaponay, the father of six children
of whom three are in the service, expended his vast income on his
estate of Beaulieu, giving occupation to a number of persons, men,
women, and children. After the hailstorm of 1761, which nearly
destroyed the village of Moran?e, he rebuilt thirty-three houses,
furnished others with timber for the framework, supplied the
commune with wheat, and, for several years, obtained for the
inhabitants a diminution of their taxation. In 1790, he celebrated
the Federation Festival on a magnificent scale, giving two banquets,
one of a hundred and thirty seats, for the municipal bodies and
officers of the National Guards in the vicinity, and the other of a
thousand seats for the privates.
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