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Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) I

CHAPTER VI
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When they saw M.Marguerite, he said that he had permitted nothing of the kind, and sent the delinquent to prison.

Half an hour later, however, he gave orders for his release.
As soon as he was free he set off to find his comrades, and told them what had occurred: they, considering that an insult to one was an insult to the whole company, determined on having satisfaction at once, so about eleven o'clock P.M.they went to the cooper's house, carrying with them a gallows and ropes ready greased.

But quietly as they approached, Allien heard them, for his door being bolted from within had to be forced.

Looking out of the window, he saw a great crowd, and as he suspected that his life was in danger, he got out of a back window into the yard and so escaped.

The militia being thus disappointed, wreaked their vengeance on some passing Protestants, whose unlucky stars had led them that way; these they knocked about, and even stabbed one of them three times with a knife.
On the 22nd April, 1790, the royalists--that is to say, the Catholics--assumed the white cockade, although it was no longer the national emblem, and on the 1st May some of the militia who had planted a maypole at the mayor's door were invited to lunch with him.


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