Meanwhile, some of the most furious begin, before his eyes, "to dig a ditch to bury him in." Protected by five or six brave fellows, amidst a volley of stones, and wounded on the head and on many parts of his body, he succeeds in reaching his carriage.

He is finally only saved because the horses, which are likewise stoned, run away.

Foreigners, Italians, bandits, are mingled with the peasants and artisans, and expressions are heard and acts are seen which indicate a jacquerie.[1130] "The most excited said to the bishop, 'we are poor and you are rich, and we mean to have all your property.'"[1131] Elsewhere, "the seditious mob exacts contributions from all people in good circumstances.

At Brignolles, thirteen houses are pillaged from top to bottom, and thirty others partly half .-- At Aupt, M.de Montferrat, in defending himself, is killed and "hacked to pieces."-- At La Seyne, the mob, led by a peasant, assembles by beat of drum.

Some women fetch a bier, and set it down before the house of a leading bourgeois, telling him to prepare for death, and that "they will have the honor of burying him." He escapes; his house is pillaged, as well as the bureau of the flour-tax.