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Title: A popular history of France : from the earliest times
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Guizot, M. (François), 1787-1874
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Publisher: Boston : D. Estes and C.E. Lauriat
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dng that if they pleased he would leave thecountry. The reply was insults and blows. He was immedi-ately despatched; and Teutgaud, seeing the episcopal ringglittering on his finger, cut off the finger to get possession ofthe ring. The body, stripped of all covering, was thrust into acorner, where passers-by threw stones or mud at it, accompany-ing their insults with ribaldry and curses. Murder and arson are contagious. All the day of the insur-rection and all the following night armed bands wandered aboutthe streets of Laon searching everywhere for relatives, friends,or servitors of the bishop, for all whom the angry populaceknew or supposed to be such, and wreaking on their persons or
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BISHOP GAUDRI DRAGGED FROM THE CASK., — Page 224. Chap. XIX.) THE COMMUNES AND THIRD ESTATE. 225 their houses a ghastly or a brutal vengeance. In a fit of terrormany poor innocents fled before the blind wrath of the popu-lace ; some were caught and cut down pell-mell amongst theguilty; others escaped through the vineyards planted betweentwo hills in the outskirts of the town. The progress of thefire, kindled on two sides at once, was so rapid, says Guibertof Nogent, and the winds drove the flames so furiously in thedirection of the convent of St. Vincent, that the monks wereafraid of seeing all they possessed become the fires prey, andall the persons who had taken refuge in this monastery trem-bled as if they had seen swords hanging over their heads.Some insurgents stopped a young man who had been body-servant to the bishop, and asked him whether the bishop hadbeen killed or not; they knew nothing about it, nor did heknow any more ; he helped them to look for the corpse, andwhen the

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