Hence the fiscal agent becomes a manifest enemy, and revolts on account of hunger are transformed into insurrections against the State.
VI .-- The first jacquerie in Province Feebleness or ineffectiveness of repressive measures.
Here, again, political novelties are the spark that ignites the mass of gunpowder.

Everywhere, the uprising of the people takes place on the very day on which the electoral assembly meets.

From forty to fifty riots occur in the provinces in less than a fortnight.

Popular imagination, like that of a child, goes straight to its mark.

The reforms having been announced, people think them accomplished and, to make sure of them, steps are at once taken to carry them out.