Above, cruel men gave orders which savage men executed below.

Savagery keeps the secret of cruelty.
Hence this hideous silence.
There is even emulation and rivalry between this savagery and this atrocity; what escaped the one was seized upon by the other.

The future will refuse to credit these prodigious excesses.

A workman was crossing the Pont au Change, some gendarmes mobiles stopped him; they smelt his hands.

"He smells of powder," said a gendarme.