Rebellions, violence and seditions have been committed in various parishes of the élection of Gien [généralité of Orléans] since the month of March 1657... over the payment which they owe for the taille for previous years... [The provost-marshal found] the inhabitants in arms, the tocsin having been sounded, and the drum beaten, which obliged him to withdraw... although he was assisted by more than sixty men. This has so increased the insolence of the people that they have continued their seditions since this time [April 1657] and are still in the same state, keeping armed guard, and visiting neighbouring parishes, obliging them to join the rebellion. There are presently more than 30 parishes in this union, which is beginning to spread to the parishes [in the élections] of Montargis, Clamécy and Romorantin. [They] assembled in arms on 23 April [1658 and went to] the town of St. Fargeau on the day of the fair, where they pillaged and sacked all the houses of the principal bourgeois of the said town, and announced a ban on paying the taille in the town and other parishes on penalty of their houses being burnt down...

[Source: A.N. E 313a, fo. 366].