Pasquier de la Barre, procureur-general of the city, succeeded by much entreaty in tranquillizing the people for the night.

The "guard of terror" was set, and hopes were entertained that the storm might blow over.

The expectation, was vain.

At daybreak next day, the mob swept upon the churches and stripped them to the very walls.

Pictures, statues; organs, ornaments, chalices of silver and gold, reliquaries, albs, chasubles, copes, ciboriea, crosses, chandeliers, lamps; censers, all of richest material, glittering with pearls, rubies, and other precious stones, were scattered in heaps of ruin upon the ground.
As the Spoilers burrowed among the ancient tombs, they performed, in one or two instances, acts of startling posthumous justice.