At this age life is tenacious, and, no life being harder to take, it requires extra efforts to dispatch them.
"In that corner," said a jailer, "they made a mountain of their bodies.
The next day, when they were to be buried, the sight was enough to break one's heart.

One of them looked as if he were sleeping like one of God's angels, but the rest were horribly mutilated."[31123]--Here, man has sunk below himself, down into the lowest strata of the animal kingdom, lower that the wolf; for wolves do not strangle their young.
VI.

Jacobin Massacre.
Effect of the massacre on the public .-- General dejection and the dissolution of society .-- The ascendancy of the Jacobins assured in Paris .-- The men of September upheld in the Commune and elected to the Convention.
There are six days and five nights of uninterrupted butchery,[31124] 171 murders at the Abbaye, 169 at La Force, 223 at the Chatelet, 328 at the Consciergerie, 73 at the Tour-Saint-Bernard, 120 at the Carmelites, 79 at Saint Firmin, 170 at Bicetre, 35 at the Salpetriere; among the dead,[31125] 250 priests, 3 bishops or archbishops, general officers, magistrates, one former minister, one royal princess, belonging to the best names in France, and, on the other side, one Negro, several working class women, kids, convicts, and poor old men: What man now, little or big, does not feel himself threatened ?--And all the more because the band has grown larger.

Fournier, Lazowski, and Becard, the chiefs of robbers and assassins, return from Orleans with fifteen hundred cut-throats.[31126] One the way they kill M.de Brissac, M.de Lessart, and 42 others accused of lese-nation, whom they wrested from their judges' hands, and then, by the way of surplus, "following the example of Paris," twenty-one prisoners taken from the Versailles prisons.

At Paris the Minister of Justice thanks them, the Commune congratulates them, and the sections feast them and embrace them.[31127]--Can anybody doubt that they were ready to begin again?
Can a step be taken in or out of Paris without being subject to their oppression or encountering their despotism?
Should one leave the city, sentinels of their species are posted at the barriers and on the section committees in continuous session.