Jacobin monastery, and from there to the tower adjoining, so that their
line now extended from the gate at the bridge of Calquieres to that at
the end of College Street. From daylight to dusk all the patriots who
came within range were fired at whether they were armed or not.

On the 14th June, at four o'clock in the morning, that part of the legion
which was against the Catholics gathered together in the square of the
Esplanade, where they were joined by the patriots from the adjacent towns
and villages, who came in in small parties till they formed quite an
army. 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. "Pooh!" said he, "I have taken a vow to kill four Protestants,
and he may pass for one."

M. Maigre, an old man of eighty-two, head of one of the most respected
families in the neighbourhood, tried to escape from his house along with