The latter draw their swords, and a young
man is hewn down and trampled on; M. de Saffrey, who comes to his
assistance unarmed, is himself cut down and pierced with bayonets,
and two others are wounded. - Meanwhile, in a neighboring street,
M. Achard de Vagogne, seeing a man maltreated by armed men,
approaches, in order to make peace. The man is shot down and M.
Achard is covered with saber and bayonet gashes: "there is not a
thread on him which is not dyed with the blood that ran down even
into his shoes." In this condition he is led to the chateau along
with M. de Saifrey. Others break down the door of the house of M.
du Rosel, an old officer of seventy-five years, of which fifty-nine
have been passed in the service, and pursue him even over the wall
of his garden. A fourth squad seizes M. d'H?ricy, another venerable
officer, who, like M. du Rosel, was ignorant of all that was going
on, and was quietly leaving for his country seat. - The town is
full of tumult, and, through the orders of the municipal
authorities, the general alarm is sounded.
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