The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . 28i Are you tbe arclibisbop ?^ asked a ruffian, whose handsand face were smeared with blood. I am, said the priest intrepidly. Then take that, said the assassin, striking him on thehead with his sword. Again and again he struck, till theold man fell; then a pike was driven into his breast withsuch force that the iron head came off and put an end tohis agony. r. MASSACRE AT THE ABBAYE Governor Sombreuil, of the Invalides, was saved by hisbeautiful daughter, who, with j^iteous tears
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . 28i Are you tbe arclibisbop ?^ asked a ruffian, whose handsand face were smeared with blood. I am, said the priest intrepidly. Then take that, said the assassin, striking him on thehead with his sword. Again and again he struck, till theold man fell; then a pike was driven into his breast withsuch force that the iron head came off and put an end tohis agony. r. MASSACRE AT THE ABBAYE Governor Sombreuil, of the Invalides, was saved by hisbeautiful daughter, who, with j^iteous tears and entreaties,clasped her father round the neck and interposed her bodybetween him and the pikes. You want to save him ? cried a brute. Then drinkthe blood of the aristocrats! and he handed her a canwhich he had filled with blood. She drank, and her father was released. When the news of the massacre reached peoples knowl-edge, a cry of horror arose. The Assembly ordered themurderers to be put on trial The Commune, which had 286 [1191-1193 given money to Maillard and his gang, began to make ex-cuses. The clubs were silent. The army boiled over withrage. Lafayette threw up his command. It looked asthough the infamous wretches who had committed themurders of September had wrecked the revolution, thoughthey were only a handful and had no one behind fact was that such confusion reigned that no one knewwhom to obey, and things had got to grow worse beforethey c
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