But they were now in the rear, and could see nothing that was taking place before them.

When the carriages reached the Abbaye the prisoners alighted.

Some of them were at once cut down by the Marseillais, the rest fled into the hall, where one of the committees was sitting.

Its members, however, did nothing to protect them, and looked on while all save two were massacred unresistingly.

Then the Marseillais came out brandishing their bloody weapons and shouting, "The good work has begun; down with the priests! Down with the enemies of the people!" The better class of people in the crowd assembled at the Hotel de Ville had not followed the procession to the Abbaye.