Bourla-Papey
The Bourla Papey ( Vaudois dialect, according to French brûle - papiers " Papierverbrenner ") were a rural people's movement in the Helvetic canton of Geneva, 1802 militantly campaigned for the abolition of seigneurial rights.
The Helvetic Constitution of April 12, 1798 banned in her thirteenth article all inalienable expense, interest and easements on land. This resulted in the abolition of feudal dues, which originated from the time of the Old Confederacy. However, the associated tithes and ground or ground rents for the financing of public tasks were essential, as long as no modern control system was developed. A law of November 10, 1798 should bring the necessary reforms; these were due to the economic and political disruption of the Republic but not implemented and already canceled on 15 September 1800 whereby the old charges were again.
The unsuccessful reform brought the Helvetic Republic in the rural former subjects into disrepute. The base interest rate storm in the canton of Basel in the autumn of 1800 was the first response to the violent episode were the Bourla Papey in the spring of 1802. The vehemence of this revolt was connected with the land and property taxes in the Vaud had an outstanding spiritual and material significance. The Canton of Geneva had been the gateway for the French intervention in the spring of 1798, which had overthrown the old Confederation and enforced their revolutionary transformation of the Helvetic Republic. He set about a quarter of all government revenue and was as former peasant lands already been the breadbasket Berns. Republic and freedom from the traditional ground duties were understood by the Vaud country people as one.
Between February and May 1802 collected two thousand to three thousand Vaudois peasants and destroyed the records of numerous former feudal lords who claimed land and property rights. In this case, a little more than a third of all municipalities were the archives of 132 municipalities of Vaud, in general, to the flames. On 8 May 1802, the insurgents occupied under the leadership of the Jacobin and recruitment officer Louis Reymond the canton capital Lausanne to withdraw on May 11 against the promise of an amnesty. Nevertheless, a special court imposed in June 1802 several death and imprisonment, but the Helvetic government lifted all through advocacy Henri Monod and under the pressure of Stecklikriegs to 15 October 1802. Already on September 29, she had also by a special law of Vaud, where she had one last power base, adopt the inalienable ground duties.