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The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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Letter from Paris, March 7, reports calm restored in Tours after riots over high corn and bread prices, but 27 villages in Lower Auvergne remain in arms, prompting Viscount de Beaune to lead troops to suppress them.
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We have received the agreeable News from Tours, that the People of that Place, who committed so many Excesses on Account of the high Price of Corn and Bread, are returned to their Duty, and that every Thing is quiet there; but we have, on the other Hand, an Account from Lower Auvergne, that 27 Villages in that Country are in Arms on the same Occasion, and that the Viscount de Beaune has received Orders to repair thither, at the Head of a Body of Troops, to quell the Rioters.
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Tours And Lower Auvergne
Event Date
March 7
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people in tours returned to duty and everything quiet; 27 villages in lower auvergne in arms, viscount de beaune ordered to repair thither with troops to quell rioters
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News from Tours indicates people who committed excesses due to high price of corn and bread have returned to duty and everything is quiet; account from Lower Auvergne reports 27 villages in arms on the same occasion, with Viscount de Beaune receiving orders to lead troops to quell the rioters