In the mean time the municipal body, his accomplices, formally present themselves at the department bureau, and invite the administrators to join them in fraternizing with the people.

The administrators, suspecting nothing, accompany them, each arm in arm with a municipal officer or delegate of the club.

They scarcely reach the square when there rushes upon it from every avenue a troop of red-caps lying in wait.

The syndic-attorney, the vice-president of the department, and two other administrators, are seized, cut down and hung; another, M.Debaux, succeeding in making his escape, hides away, scales the ramparts during the night, breaks his thigh and lies there on the ground; he is discovered the next morning; a band, led by Jassaud, a harbor-laborer, and by Lemaille, calling him self "the town hangman," come and raise him up, carry him away in a barrow, and hang him at the first lamppost.

Other bands dispatch the public prosecutor in the same fashion, a district administrator, and a merchant, and then, spreading over the country, pillage and slay among the country houses .-- In vain has the commandant of the place, M.
Dumerbion, entreated the municipality to proclaim martial law.