Laurede is pressed back on the holy-water basin and wounded on the head; on trying to escape he is seized by the hair, thrown down, pierced in the arm with a bayonet, put in prison, and Brunache along with him.

Eight days afterwards, at the second meeting none are present but Jacobins; naturally, "they are all elected".

They form the new municipality, which, notwithstanding the orders of the department, not only refuses to liberate the two prisoners, but throws them into a dungeon .-- At Montpellier, the delay in the operation is greater, but it is only the more complete.

The votes are deposited, the ballot-boxes closed and sealed up and the conservatives obtain a majority.

Thereupon the Jacobin club, with the Society of the "iron-clubs," calling itself the Executive power, betake themselves in force to the sectional meetings, burn one of the ballots, use firearms and kill two men.