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Updated: October 16, 2026
At Coutances and at Vire, several monopoliers and gabeleurs, as the fiscal officers were called, were massacred; a great number of houses were burned, and most of the receiving-offices were pulled down or pillaged. Some of these verses are fair enough. The tumult was more violent at Rouen than anywhere else, and the Parliament energetically resisted the mob.