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Description (anglais) : ‘On May 10 the army marched on Bergerac, which was undenfed, and occupied the city for twenty days. Their movement issued a ‘‘Protest by the Assemled Communities’’ […] and a ‘‘Request of the Insurrectionary Communes of Périgord to the King’’ in which they demanded punishment for the gabeleurs [...]. They treaded the people of Bergerac mildly except for those reputed to be gabeleurs Ataux [lieutenant-general of the sénéchaussée] was arrested by the peasants and would have been executed exept for the intervention of La Mothe La Forêt. Alesme [greffier of Jay d'Ataux] had his townhous pillages, and his suburabn house burned down, his garden ruined, his grapevines pulled up, and his well filled in. […] Six other officials connected to tax collections received similar treatment’. The insurrection was finally crushed by the royal army in a battle at La Sauvetat that resulted in more than 1,000 deaths (200-800 royals soldiers and 1,000-1,500 Croquants).