22: "The department of Bouches-du-Rhone has for a month past been ravaged by commissions.

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The despotism of one is abolished, and we now stagger under the much more burdensome yoke of a crowd of despots."-- Situation of the department in September and October, 1792 (with supporting documents).] [Footnote 32101: Barbaroux, "Memoires," 89.] [Footnote 32102: "Archives Nationales," F7, 3196 .-- Letters and petition of citizen de Sades, Nov., 1792, Feb.17, 1793, and Ventose 8, year III.: "Towards the middle of Sept., 1792 (old style), some Marseilles brigands broke into a house of mine near Apt.

Not content with carrying away six loads of furniture..

they broke the mirrors and wood-work." The damage is estimated at 80,000 francs.