As soon as they get back home, they sack the
chateaux of Saint-Gal, Seilhac, Gourdon, Saint-Basile, and La
Rochette, besides a number of country-houses, even of absent
plebeians. They have found a quarry, and never was the removal of
property more complete. They carefully carry off, says an official
statement, all that can be carried - furniture, curtains, mirrors,
clothes-presses, pictures, wines, provisions, even floors and wooden
panels, "down to the smallest fragments of iron and wood-work,"
smashing the rest, so that nothing "remains of the house but its
four walls, the roof and the staircase." In Lot, where for two years
the insurrection is permanent, the damage is much greater. During
the night between the 30th and 31st of January, "all the best houses
in Souillac" are broken open, "sacked and pillaged from top to
bottom,"[70] their owners being obliged to fly, and so many
outbreaks occur in the department, that the directory has no time to
render an account of them to the minister.
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