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Massacres Of The South (1551-1815) I

CHAPTER VI
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At five A.M.

M.de St.Pons, knowing that the windows of the Capuchin monastery commanded the position taken up by the patriots, went there with a company and searched the house thoroughly, and also the Amphitheatre, but found nothing suspicious in either.
Immediately after, news was heard of the massacres that had taken place during the night.
The country-house belonging to M.and Mme.

Noguies had been broken into, the furniture destroyed, the owners killed in their beds, and an old man of seventy who lived with them cut to pieces with a scythe.
A young fellow of fifteen, named Payre, in passing near the guard placed at the Pont des files, had been asked by a red-tuft if he were Catholic or Protestant.

On his replying he was Protestant, he was shot dead on the spot.

"That was like killing a lamb," said a comrade to the murderer.


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