Marseilles, touched by the blockade which strikes the English, rises and preaches a federalistic organization of the capacity.

Toulon does not hesitate to open its port with the English. Napoleon Bonaparte is sent to give Marseilles and Toulon in the right path.
One assists then, not with a new invasion, but with a phenomenon quite as generating of insecurity, generated by dissatisfaction and poverty: armed robbery, true social phenomenon whose establishment was the forest solid masses of Luberon, the Ste-Balsam, or Maures. They are small troops of outlaw from twenty to thirty people who do not hesitate to hold to ransom the travellers, the convoys, but also attack with the rich person fields and the farms. Between them, is formed a network of complicity with indics recruited as well in the aristocratic hotels of Marseilles or Aix as in the simple hut of shepherds. The operations of maintenance of law and order prove to be ineffective, owing to the fact that these groups were itinerant and that the gendarmes and soldiers sent to their search were for the majority foreigners with this province, being unaware of the country and the language. The greed of Napoleon as soldiers and taxes led refractory conscripts to join these tapes of plunderers.

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In this connection here an anecdote which took place about the years 1870, when great work of land register and topography was undertaken by engineers from Paris: In the surroundings of the Mirabeau Warp ends an engineer was in front of a road which to go up very extremely and, on its card no precision of name, which to make! He héla a peasant who worked in his field, and asked him which name had this road. The peasant answered him, in patois well on, and " avé the acen ": " Lou not of the ancious " (translation: the step of the anxiety, why this name: when the time has, which worries us, an assembled diligence this coast it

slowed down and often of the brigands precisely this place for détrousser the unhappy passengers of diligence waited, from where them anxiety).

The Parisian engineer made repeated the good man and translated " the ancious " into lancers (it had loved these famous lancers), it is like that that today not far from the Mirabeau Warp ends, a village is called " Not Lancers ".