They broke open the electoral vault, and scattered the ashes of that illustrious family about the streets.

They set fire to different quarters of the city; they stripped about fifteen thousand of the inhabitants, without distinction of age or sex, and drove them naked into the castle, that the garrison might be the sooner induced to capitulate.

There they remained like cattle in the open air, without food or covering, tortured between the horrors of their fete and the terrors of a bombardment.

When they were set at liberty, in consequence of the fort's being surrendered, a great number of them died along the banks of the Neckar, from cold, hunger, anguish, and despair.

These enormous cruelties, which would have disgraced the arms of a Tartarian freebooter, were acted by the express command of Louis XIV.