Bande noire

The gang noire ( German as: black rotting ) was the first French Revolution and during the Restoration, the name given to the companies of speculators and developers who bought the declared to be state property monasteries, estates of the emigrants, castles and the like, as well as by repealing the entails and primogeniture offered for sale building brought in to to separate them or remove the building materials and to sell. This form of vandalism destroyed many valuable historical and artistic building.