Dubourg was condemned on the 22d of December, and heard unmoved the reading of his sentence.

"I forgive my judges," said he; "they have judged according to their own lights, not according to the light that comes from on high.

Put out your fires, ye senators; be converted, and live happily.

Think without ceasing of God and on God." After these words, which were taken down by the clerk of the court, "and which I have here copied," says De Thou, Dubourg was taken on the 23d of December, in a tumbrel to the Place de Greve.

As he mounted the ladder he was heard repeating several times, "Forsake me not, my God, for fear lest I forsake thee." He was strangled before he was cast into the flames (De Thou, t.iii.