"Among the pillagers and incendiaries of the chateaux of Privesac, Vaureilles, Pechins, and other threatened mansions, were a number of recruits who had already taken the road to Rhodez to join their respective regiments." Nothing remains of the chateau of Privesac but a heap of ruins.

The houses in the village "are filled to over flowing with pillaged articles, and the inhabitants have divided the owners' animals amongst themselves."-- Comte de Seilhac, "Scenes et portraits de la Revolution dans le bas Limousin," P.305.Pillage of the chateaux of Saint-Jeal and Seilhac, April 12, 1792, by the 3rd battalion of la Correze, commanded by Bellegarde, a former domestic in the chateau.] [Footnote 3251: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3270.

Deliberation of the council-general of the commune of Roye, Oct.

8, 1792 (passage of two divisions of Parisian gendarmes).

"The inhabitants and municipal officers were by turns the sport of their insolence and brutality, constantly threatened in case of refusal with having their heads cut off, and seeing the said gendarmes, especially the gunners, with naked sabers in their hands, always threatening.