Here are some of the principles announced by the Jacobin leaders of Lyons, Chalier, Laussel, Cusset, Rouillot, etc.

"The time has come when this prophecy must be fulfilled: The rich shall be put in the place of the poor, and the poor in the place of the rich."-- "If a half of their property be left them the rich will still be happy."-- "If the laboring people of Lyons are destitute of work and of bread, they can profit by these calamities in helping themselves to wealth in the quarter where they find it."-- "No one who is near a sack of wheat can die of hunger.
Do you wish the word that will buy all that you want?
Slay!--or perish!"] [Footnote 3207: Prudhomme, number for the 28th of August, 1792, pp.
284-287.] [Footnote 3208: Cf..

"The French Revolution," I.346.In ten of the departments the seventh jacquerie continues the sixth without a break.
Among other examples, this letter from the administrators of Tarn, June 18, 1792, may be read ("Archives Nationales," F7, 3271).

"Numerous bands overran both the city (Castres) and the country.

They forcibly entered the houses of the citizens, broke the furniture to pieces, and pillaged everything that fell into their hands.