Without waiting to complete the Psalm, they fastened upon the company of marble martyrs, as if they had possessed sensibility to feel the blows inflicted.

In an hour they had laid the whole in ruins.
Having accomplished this deed, they swept on towards Anchin.

Here, however, they were confronted by the Seigneur de la Tour, who, at the head of a small company of peasants, attacked the marauders and gained a complete victory.

Five or six hundred of them were slain, others were drowned in the river and adjacent swamps, the rest were dispersed.

It was thus proved that a little more spirit upon the part of the orderly portion of the inhabitants, might have brought about a different result than the universal image-breaking.
In Valenciennes, "the tragedy," as an eye-witness calls it, was performed upon Saint Bartholomew's day.