Articles from the Mont-de-Piete, that is to say, the spoils of the poor! The poorer the city the richer its pawn-shops.

Few could boast such wealth as those of Avignon.

It was no longer a factional affair, it was a theft, an infamous theft.

Whites and Reds rushed to the Church of the Cordeliers, shouting that the municipality must render them an accounting.
Lescuyer was the secretary of the municipality.

His name was thrown to the crowd, not for having torn down the pontifical decrees--from that moment he would have had defenders--but for having signed the order to the keeper of the Mont-de-Piete permitting the removal of the articles in pawn.
Four men were sent to seize Lescuyer and bring him to the church.