As a last recourse, they are conducted to Bordeaux, before the Directory of the department.

But it is getting dark, and the riotous crowd becoming impatient, makes an attack on them.

The octogenarian "receives so many blows that he cannot recover"; the abbe du Puy is knocked down and dragged along by a rope attached to his feet; M.de Langoirac's head is cut off, carried about on a pike, taken to his house and presented to the servant, who is told that "her master will not come home to supper." The torment of the priests has lasted from five o'clock in the morning to seven o'clock in the evening, and the municipal authorities were duly advised; but they cannot put themselves out of the way to give succor; they are too seriously occupied in erecting a liberty-pole.
Route from Bordeaux to Caen .-- The Minister's finger turns to the north, and stops at Limoges.

The day following the federation has been here celebrated the same as at Bordeaux.[3257] An unsworn priest, the abbe Chabrol, assailed by a gang of men and women, is first conducted to the guard-house and then to the dwelling of the juge-de-paix; for his protection a warrant of arrest is gotten out, and he is kept under guard, in sight, by four chasseurs, in one of the rooms.

But the populace are not satisfied with this.