, fires at random into the already
semi-abandoned church, and kills two men. Duprat assembles about thirty
of the towns-people, imprisoned by him on the 31st of August, and,
in addition to these, about forty artisans belonging to the Catholic
brotherhoods, porters, bakers, coopers, and day-laborers, two peasants,
a beggar, a few women seized haphazard and on vague denunciations, one
of them, "because she spoke ill of Madame Mainvielle." Jourdan supplies
the executioners; the apothecary Mende, brother-in-law of Duprat, plies
them with liquor, while a clerk of Tournal, the newsman, bids them
"kill all, so that there shall be no witnesses left." Whereupon, at the
reiterated orders of Mainvielle, Tournal, Duprat, and Jourdan, with a
complications of hilarious lewdness,[2448] the massacre develops itself
on the 16th of October and following days, during sixty-six hours, the
victims being a couple of priests, three children, an old man of eighty,
thirteen women, two of whom are pregnant, in all, sixty-one persons,
with their throats slit or knocked out and then cast one on top of each
other into the Glaciere hole, a mother on the body of her infant, a son
on the body of his father, all finished off with rocks, the hole being
filled up with stones and covered over with quicklime on account of
the smell.[2449] In the meantime about a hundred more, killed in the
streets, are pitched into the Sorgues canal; five hundred families make
their escape. The ousted bandits return in a body, while the assassins
who are at the head of them, enthroned by murder, organize for the
benefit of their new band a legal system of brigandage, against which
nobody defends himself.[2450]

These are the friends of the Jacobins of Arles and Marseilles, the
respectable men whom M. d'Antonelle has come to address in the cathedral
at Avignon.[2451] These are the pure patriots, who, with their hands in
the till and their feet in gore, caught in the act by a French army, the
mask torn off through a scrupulous investigation, universally condemned
by the emancipated electors, also by the deliberate verdict of the new
mediating commissioners,[2452] are included in the amnesty proclaimed
by the Legislative Assembly a month before their last crime.--But the
sovereigns of the Bouches-du-Rhone do not regard the release of
their friends and allies as a pardon: something more than pardon and
forgetfulness must be awarded to the murderers of the Glaciere. On the
29th