[Footnote 1340: "Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. (Letter of M. de Bergeron, attorney to the présidial of Valence, August 28th, with the details of the verdict stated.) Official report of the militia of Lyons, sent to the president of the National Assembly, August 10th. (Expedition to Serrière, in Dauphiny, July 31st.)] [Footnote 1341: Letter of the Count of Courtivron, deputy substitute (an eye-witness).--"Archives Nationales," D. XXIX. I. Letter of the municipal officers of Crémieu (Dauphiny), November 3rd. Letter of the Vicomte de Carbonnière (Auvergne), August 3rd.--Arthur Young, July 30th (Dijon) says, apropos of a noble family which escaped almost naked from its burning chateau, "they were esteemed by the neighbors; their virtues ought to have commanded the love of the poor, for whose resentment there was no cause."] [Footnote 1342: "Archives Nationales," XXIX. I. (Letter of the commission of the States of Dauphiny, July 31st.)] [Footnote 1343: "Désastres du Mâconnais," by Puthod de la Maison-Rouge (August, 1789). "Ravages du Mâconnais."--Arthur Young, July 27th.--Buchez and Roux, IV. 215, 214.--Mercure de France, September 12, 1789. (Letter by a volunteer of Orleans.) "On the 15th of August, eighty-eight ruffians, calling themselves reapers, present themselves at Bascon, in Beauce, and, the next day, at a chateau in the neighborhood, where they demand within an hour the head of the son of the lord of the manor, M. Tassin, who can only redeem himself by a contribution of 1,600 livres and the pillaging of his cellars.] [Footnote 1344: Letter of the Count de Courtivron.--Arthur Young, July 31st.--Buchez and Roux, II. 243.--Mercure de France, August 15, 1789 (sitting of the 8th, discourse of a deputy from Dauphiné.)--Mermet, "Histoire de la Ville de Vienne," 445--" Archives Nationales," ibid. (Letter of the commission of the States of Dauphiny, July 31st.)--"The list of burnt or devastated chateaux is immense." The committee already cites sixteen of them.--Puthod de la Maison-Rouge, ibid.: "Were all devastated places to be mentioned, it would be necessary to cite the whole province" (Letter from Mâcon). "They have not the less destroyed most of the chateaux and bourgeois dwellings, either burning them and or else tearing them down."] [Footnote 1345: Lally-Tollendal, "Second Letter to my Constituents," 104.]