It was therefore not as an accomplice of theft that Lescuyer had just been so cruelly murdered, it was for being a patriot.
There was at that time in Avignon a man who controlled the populace.

All these terrible leaders of the Midi have acquired such fatal celebrity that it suffices to name them for every one, even the least educated, to know them.

This man was Jourdan.

Braggart and liar, he had made the common people believe that it was he who had cut off the head of the governor of the Bastille.

So they called him Jourdan, Coupe-tete.
That was not his real name, which was Mathieu Jouve.