s, the rascals of France and all Europe,
prepare beforehand for the operation," and rape alternates with
massacre.[31121]--Thus far, at least, slaughter has been seasoned with
robbery, and the grossness of eating and drinking; at Bicetre, however,
it is crude butchery, the carnivorous instinct alone satisfying itself.
Among other prisoners are 43 youths of the lowest class, from 17 to 19
years of age, placed there for correction by their parents, or by those
to whom they are bound;[31122] one need only look at them to see that
they are genuine Parisian scamps, the apprentices of vice and misery,
the future recruits for the reigning band, and these the band falls on,
beating them to death with clubs. At this age life is tenacious, and, no
life being harder to take, it requires extra efforts to dispatch them.
"In that corner," said a jailer, "they made a mountain of their bodies.
The next day, when they were to be buried, the sight was enough to break
one's heart. One of them looked as if he were sleeping like one of God's
angels, but the rest were horribly mutilated."[31123]--Here, man has
sunk below himself, down into the lowest strata of the animal kingdom,
lower that the wolf; for wolves do not strangle their young.

VI. Jacobin Massacre.

Effect of the massacre on the public.--General dejection and
the dissolution of society.--The ascendancy of the Jacobins
assured in Paris.--The men of September upheld in the
Commune and elected to the Convention.

There are six days and five nights of uninterrupted butchery,[31124] 171
murders at the Abbaye, 169 at La Force, 223 at the Chatelet, 328 at the
Consciergerie, 73 at the Tour-Saint-Bernard, 120 at the Carmelites,
79 at Saint Firmin, 170 at Bicetre, 35 at the Salpetriere; among the
dead,[31125] 250 priests, 3 bishops or archbishops, general officers,
magistrates, one former minister, one royal princess, belonging to the
best names in France, and, on the other side, one Negro, several working
class women, kids, convicts, and poor old men: What man now, little or
big, does not feel himself threatened?--And all the more because the
band has grown larger. Fournier, Lazowski, and Becard, the chiefs
of robbers and assassins, return from Orleans with fifteen hundred
cut-throats.[31126] One the way they kill M. de Brissac, M. de Lessart,
and 42 others accused of lese-nation, whom they wrested from their
judges' hands, and then, by the way of surplus, "f