Tobacco from the dunes

Are the people of Saint-Gironnais undisciplined? A bit rascal in any case, when in 1789 and in numbers, they boasted of going to the coast "to take fraud", in this case a nice cargo of tobacco. Since 1674, the tobacco trade had been a royal monopoly and the farmers-general, hated by the population, were responsible for collecting the loot. But the adventure was short-lived, interrupted by the Farm's agents. However, few people were involved in this affair, as solidarity against the 'Ancien Régime' was in the air at the time.