He shouts to one of them, "You are a muscadin!" To another: "I see by your eyes that you are an aristocrat!" To another: "You are a bloody beggar, an aristocrat, a rascal," and he strikes him in the stomach; he seizes a fourth by his collar and throws him down on the pavement.[3299] In addition to this, all are imprisoned.

The fire being extinguished, an indiscreet fellow, who stood by looking on, recommends "the dispenser of blows" to wipe his forehead." "You can't see straight--who are you?
Answer me, I am the representative." The other replies mildly: "Representative, nothing could be more respectable." Duquesnoy gives the unlucky courtier a blow under the nose: "You are disputing--go to prison," "which I did at once," adds the docile subject .-- That same evening, "whereas, in the conflagration, none of the inhabitants in good circumstances offered their services in extinguishing the fire,[32100] and none but sans-culottes came thereto, from the garrison as well as from the commune," Duquesnoy orders "that a tax of 40,000 livres be imposed on the commune of Metz, levied on the fortunes of the rich and distributed among the poor, payable within ten days."[32101]--"Fais-moi f....

dedans tous ces b...

la[32102]," "quatre j...f...

a raccourcir;"[32103] At Arras, as at Metz, the lout is ever the ruffian and the butcher.
Others are either jolly fellows, or blackguards.