Easter Sunday was the day which the ministers of Jesus Christ selected for preaching "that it was lawful, and even meritorious, to kill Jacobins." Death to Frenchmen!--Death to Jacobins! as they called all the French, were their rallying cries.

At the time I had not the slightest idea of this state of things, for I had left Sens only on the 11th of April.
After stopping two hours at Verona, I proceeded on my journey without being aware of the massacre which threatened that city.

When about a league from the town I was, however, stopped by a party of insurgents on their way thither, consisting, as I estimated, of about two thousand men.
They only desired me to cry 'El viva Santo Marco', an order with which I speedily complied, and passed on.

What would have become of me had I been in Verona on the Monday?
On that day the bells were rung, while the French were butchered in the hospitals.

Every one met in the streets was put to death.