In vain does Lafayette insist and entreat three times that the judgment be regularly rendered, and that the accused be sent to the Abbaye.

A new wave of people comes up, and one man, "well dressed," cries out: "What is the need of a sentence for a man who has been condemned for thirty years ?" Foulon is carried off; dragged across the square, and hung to the lamp post.

The cord breaks twice, and twice he falls upon the pavement.

Re-hung with a fresh cord and then cut down, his head is severed from his body and placed on the end of a pike.[1254] Meanwhile, Berthier, sent away from Compiegne by the municipality, afraid to keep him in his prison where he was constantly menaced, arrives in a cabriolet under escort.

The people carry placards around him filled with opprobrious epithets; in changing horses they threw hard black bread into the carriage, exclaiming, "There, wretch, see the bread you made us eat!" On reaching the church of Saint-Merry, a fearful storm of insults burst forth against him.