It was he who had thrust his hands into the open breasts and plucked forth the hearts of Foulon and Berthier.[14] It was he who had cut off the head of the two _gardes-du-corps_, de Varicourt and des Huttes, at Versailles, on the 6th of October.

It was he who, entering Paris, bearing the two heads at the end of a pike, reproached the people with being content with so little, and having made him go so far to cut off only two heads! He hoped for better things at Avignon, and went thither.
There was at Avignon a body of volunteers called the army of Vaucluse, formed of the dregs of that country, and commanded by one Patrix.

This Patrix having been assassinated by his troop, whose excesses he desired to moderate, Jourdan was elevated to the command by the claims of sedition and wickedness.

The soldiers, when reproached with their robberies and murders, similar to those of the _Gueux_ of Belgium, and the _sans-culottes_ of Paris, received the reproach as an honour, and called themselves the _brave brigands_ of Avignon.

Jourdan at the head of this band, ravaged and fired le Comtal, laid siege to Carpentras, was repulsed, lost five hundred men, and fell back upon Avignon, still shuddering at the murder of Lescuyer.