Entire regions were devastated.

The hamlet of Tiffauges had no more young men.

La Suze was without male posterity.

At Champtoce the whole foundation room of a tower was filled with corpses.
A witness cited in the inquest, Guillaume Hylairet, declared also, "that one hight Du Jardin hath heard say that there was found in the said castle a wine pipe full of dead little children.' "Even today traces of these assassinations linger.

Two years ago at Tiffauges a physician discovered an oubliette and brought forth piles of skulls and bones.
"Gilles confessed to frightful holocausts, and his friends confirmed the atrocious details.
"At dusk, when their senses are phosphorescent, enkindled by inflammatory spiced beverages and by 'high' venison, Gilles and his friends retire to a distant chamber of the chateau.