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Celebrated Crimes

CHAPTER VI
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Being recognised as a Protestant, he received five wounds from some of the famous pitchforks belonging to the company of Froment.

He fell, but the assassins picked him up, and throwing him into the moat, amused themselves by flinging stones at him, till one of them, with more humanity than his fellows, put a bullet through his head.
Three electors--M.

Massador from near Beaucaire, M.Vialla from the canton of Lasalle, and M.Puech of the same place-were attacked by red-tufts on their way home, and all three seriously wounded.

The captain who had been in command of the detachment on guard at the Electoral Assembly was returning to his quarters, accompanied by a sergeant and three volunteers of his own company, when they were stopped on the Petit-Cours by Froment, commonly called Damblay, who, pressing the barrel of a pistol to the captain's breast, said, "Stand, you rascal, and give up your arms." At the same time the red-tufts, seizing the captain from behind by the hair, pulled him down.

Froment fired his pistol, but missed.


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