The two booksellers were massacred on the pavement.

The other prisoners were put to death in the shops.' "Let us conclude with three extracts which it is impossible to transcribe without a shudder:-- "'For the first quarter of an hour of this scene of horror,' says a witness, 'the firing, which for a moment became less sharp, caused some persons who were only wounded to suppose that they might get up.

Of those who were lying before _Le Prophete_ two rose.

One of them fled by Rue du Sentier, from which he was only a few yards away.

He reached it amid a shower of balls which carried away his cap.