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acts alarm already appeared aristocrats arms arrived asked Assembly attacked August authorities believe brigands called caused Château claimed coming committee common corn countryside crossed curé demanded deputies direct disturbances Dordogne especially Estates-General everywhere fact farmers fear followed forced forest France Franche-Comté further hand happened harvest heard hundred important incident inhabitants intendant July June king land Languedoc later less letters March means militia morning moved municipality nature never night nobility nobles o'clock officers orders panic Paris parish passed peasants plot poor possible probably provinces reached reason refused region revolt riots rumour seems seen seigneur sent similar spread started stop supposed taken things Third Estate thought thousand threatened took town travelled troops turn usually valley villages wanted warned wrote
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| Title | The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France Vintage books |
| Author | Georges Lefebvre |
| Publisher | Vintage Books, 1973 |
| ISBN | 0394719395, 9780394719399 |
| Length | 234 pages |
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