"Bands of famished beggars overran the country....
Riots and pillaging around Caen; several mills burnt....

Suppression of these by the imperial guard.

In the executions which resulted from these even women were not spared."-- The two principal guarantees at the present day against this public danger are, first, easier circumstances, and next the multiplication of good roads and of railroads, the dispatch and cheapness of transportation, and the superabundant crops of Russia and the United States.] [Footnote 3254: J.Gebelin, "Histoire des milices provinciales" (1882), p.87, 143, 157, 288 .-- Most of the texts and details may be found in this excellent work .-- Many towns, Paris, Lyons, Reims, Rouen, Bordeaux, Tours, Agen, Sedan and the two generalities of Flanders and Hainault are examples of drawing by lot; they furnished their contingent by volunteers enlisted at their own expense; the merchants and artisans, or the community itself, paying the bounty for enlistment.

Besides this there were many exemptions in the lower class .-- Cf.

"The Ancient Regime," p.390.