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Sy soot which rose from the smoke of the funeral pyre where human bodies
were consumed. They still show you to-day the instruments of torture
which they have carefully preserved--the caldron, the oven, the wooden
horse, the chains, the dungeons, and even the rotten bones. Nothing is
wanting. It was in this tower, built by Clement V., that they now
confined the eighty prisoners. These eighty men, once arrested and
locked up in the Trouillas Tower, became most embarrassing. Who was to
judge them? There were no legally constituted courts except those of the
Pope. Could they kill these unfortunates as they had killed Lescuyer? We
have said that a third, perhaps half of them, had not only taken no part
in the murder, but had not even set foot in the church. How should they
kill them? The killing must be placed upon the basis of reprisals. But
the killing of these eighty people required a certain number of
executioners. A species of tribunal was improvised by Jourdan and held
session in one of the law-courts. It had a clerk named Raphel; a
president, half Italian, half French; an orator in the popular dialect
named Barbe Savournin de la Roua, and three or four other poor devils, a
baker, a pork butcher--their names are lost in the multitude of events.
These were the men who cried: "We must kill all! If one only escapes he
will be a witness against us." But, as we have said, executioners were
wanting. There were barely twenty men at hand in the courtyard, all
belonging to the petty tradesfolk of Avignon--a barber, a shoemaker, a
cobbler, a mason, and an upholsterer--all insufficiently armed at
random, the one with a sabre, the other with a bayonet, a third with an
iron bar, and a fourth with a bit of wood hardened by fire. All of these
people were chilled by a fine October rain. I
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