At Thionville, Cusset drinks like a "Lapithe" and, when drunk, gives the orders of a "vizier," which orders are executed.[32109] At Tarbes, Monestier "after a heavy meal and much excited," warmly harangues the court, personally examines the prisoner, M.de Lasalle, an old officer, whom he has condemned to death, and signs the order to have him guillotined at once.

M.de Lasalle is guillotined that very evening, at midnight, by torchlight.

The following morning Monestier says to the president of the court: "Well, we gave poor Lasalle a famous fright last night, didn't we ?" "How a famous fright?
He is executed!" Monestier is astonished--he did not remember having issued the order.[32110]--With others, wine, besides sanguinary instincts, brings out the foulest instincts.

At Nimes; Borie, in the uniform of a representative, along with Courbis, the mayor, Geret, the justice and a number of prostitutes, dance the farandole around the guillotine.

At Auch, one of the worst tyrants in the South, Dartigoyte, always heated with liquor "vomited every species of obscenity" in the faces of women that came to demand justice; "he compels, under penalty of imprisonment, mothers to take their daughters to the popular club," to listen to his filthy preaching; one evening, at the theatre, probably after an orgy, he shouts at all the women between the acts, lets loose upon them his smutty vocabulary, and, by way of demonstration, or as a practical conclusion, ends by stripping himself naked.[32111]--This time, the genuine brute appears.