"Do what you please," said he.

The mob ran to look for the constable Armagnac and the chancellor de Marle in the Palace-tower, in which they had been shut up, and they were at once torn to pieces amidst ferocious rejoicings.

All the prisons were ransacked and emptied; the prisoners who attempted resistance were smoked out; they were hurled down from the windows upon pikes held up to catch them.

The massacre lasted from four o'clock in the morning to eleven.

The common report was, that fifteen hundred persons had perished in it; the account rendered to parliament made the number eight hundred.