Everywhere else the people were killed indiscriminately.
"The first person killed in this butchery--history has in like manner preserved the name of the first person killed at the massacre of Saint Bartholomew--was one Theodore Debaecque, who lived in the house at the corner of Rue du Sentier, where the carnage began.
VII "When the slaughter came to an end,--that is to say when it was black night, and it had begun in broad day,--the dead bodies were not removed; they were so numerous that thirty-three of them were counted before a single shop, that of M.Barbedienne.Every square of ground left open in the asphalt at the foot of the trees on the boulevards was a reservoir of blood.

'The dead bodies,' says a witness, 'were piled up in heaps, one upon another, old men, children, blouses and paletots, assembled pell-mell, in an indescribable mass of heads, arms, and legs.' "Another witness describes thus a group of three individuals: 'Two had fallen on their backs; and the third, having tripped over their legs, had fallen upon them.' The single corpses were rare and attracted more notice than the others.

One young man, well dressed, was seated against a wall, with his legs apart, his arms half folded, one of Verdier's canes in his hand, and seemed to be looking at what was going on around him; he was dead.

A little farther on, the bullets had nailed against a shop a youth in velveteen trousers who had some proof-sheets in his hand.

The wind fluttered these bloody proofs, on which the fingers of the corpse were still closed.