"A short truce"

In the vicinity of Mont Mouchet

Sources vary with regard to the number of attacks in 1766. As mentioned, there was much less formal documentation of such incidents now that the official Beast of King Louis XV had been killed the previous September. 

In any case, a February 1766 letter speculates on whether the Beast was the animal killed in 1765, or whether it is “another of the same nature. Either way, the peace of the Gévaudan has proved to be only a short truce.”*

*Pourcher