He is called a monopolist, "although he had never bought or sold a grain of wheat." In the eyes of the multitude, who has to explain the evil as caused by some evil-doer, he is the author of the famine.

Conducted to the Abbaye, his escort is dispersed and he is pushed over to the lamp post.

Then, seeing that all is lost, he snatches a gun from one of his murderers and bravely defends himself.
A soldier of the "Royal Croats" gives him a cut with his saber across the stomach, and another tears out his heart.

As the cook, who had cut off the head of M.de Launay, happens to be on the spot, they hand him the heart to carry while the soldiers take the head, and both go to the Hotel-de-Ville to show their trophies to M.de Lafayette.

On their return to the Palais-Royal, and while they are seated at table in a tavern, the people demand these two remains.