his son, his daughter-in-law, two grandchildren, and two servants; but
the carriage was stopped, and while the rebels were murdering him and his
son, the mother and her two children succeeded in escaping to an inn,
whither the assassins pursued them, Fortunately, however, the two
fugitives having a start, reached the inn a few minutes before their
pursuers, and the innkeeper had enough presence of mind to conceal them
and open the garden gate by which he said they had escaped. The
Catholics, believing him, scattered over the country to look for them,
and during their absence the mother and children were rescued by the
mounted patrol.

The exasperation of the Protestants rose higher and higher as reports of
these murders came in one by one, till at last the desire for vengeance
could no longer be repressed, and they were clamorously insisting on
being led against the ramparts and the towers, when without warning a
heavy fusillade began from the windows and the clock tower of the
Capuchin monastery. M. Massin, a municipal officer, was killed on the
spot, a sapper fatally wounded, and twenty-five of the National Guard
wounded more or less severely. The Protestants immediately rushed
towards the monastery in a disorderly mass; but the superior, instead of
ordering the gates to be opened, appeared at a window above the entrance,
and addressing the assailants as the vilest of the vile, asked them what
they wanted at the monastery. "We want to destroy it, we want to pull it
down till not one stone rests upon another," they replied. Upon this,
the reverend father ordered the alarm bells to be rung, and from the
mouths of bronze issued the call for help; but before it could arrive,
the door was burst in with hatchets, and five Capuchins and several of
the militia who wore the red tuft were killed, while all the other
occupants of the monastery ran away, taking refuge in the house of a
Protestant called Paulhan. During this attack the church was respected;