Editing Barcelonnette (section)

===Revolution===
Barcelonnette was one of few settlements in Haute-Provence to acquire a [[Masonic Lodge]] before the Revolution, in fact having two:
* the lodge of ''Saint-Jean-d'Écosse des amis réunis'', affiliated with the ''Saint-Jean-d'Écosse'' lodge in [[Marseille]];
* the lodge of ''Saint-Jean'', affiliated with the ''Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem d'Avignon'' lodge founded in 1749.<ref name="AHP-c120">[[Robert-Henri Bautier]], "Les loges maçonniques (seconde moitié du XVIII<sup>e</sup> siècle)", maps 120 and 121 and commentary ''in'' Baratier, Duby & Hildesheimer, ''Atlas historique''</ref><ref name="Alphand">Patrice Alphand, "Les Sociétés populaires", ''La Révolution dans les Basses-Alpes'', Annales de Haute-Provence, bulletin de la société scientifique et littéraire des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, no 307, 1st term 1989, 108th year, p. 292</ref>

In March 1789, riots took place as a result of a crisis in wheat production.<ref name="Révolution11">''La Révolution dans les Basses-Alpes'', Annales de Haute-Provence, bulletin de la société scientifique et littéraire des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, no 307, 1st term 1989, 108th year, p. 11</ref> In July, the [[Great Fear]] of aristocratic reprisal against the ongoing [[French Revolution]] struck France, arriving in the Barcelonnette area on 31 July 1789 (when the news of the [[storming of the Bastille]] first reached the town) before spreading towards [[Digne]].<ref name="AHP-c154">[[Michel Vovelle]], "Les troubles de Provence en 1789", map 154 and commentary, ''in'' Baratier, Duby & Hildesheimer, ''Atlas historique''</ref>

This agitation continued in the Ubaye Valley; a new revolt broke out on 14 June,<ref name="Révolution15">Annales de Haute-Provence, p. 15</ref> and famine was declared in April 1792. The patriotic society of the commune was one of the first 21 created in [[Alpes-de-Haute-Provence]], in spring 1792, by the envoys of the departmental administration.<ref name="Alphand296">Alphand, "Les Sociétés populaires", pp. 296–301</ref> Around a third of the male population attended at the club.<ref name="Alphand320">Alphand, "Les Sociétés populaires", p. 320</ref> Another episode of political violence occurred in August 1792.

Barcelonnette was the seat of the District of Barcelonnette from 1790 to 1800.