Celebrated Crimes

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n that the Protestants were constantly receiving reinforcements from La Gardonninque and La Vaunage. The firing began at ten o'clock in the morning, and at four in the afternoon it showed no signs of abatement on either side. But at that hour a flag of truce made his appearance; it was Descombiez's...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: n that the Protestants were constantly receiving reinforcements from La Gardonninque and La Vaunage. The firing began at ten o'clock in the morning, and at four in the afternoon it showed no signs of abatement on either side. But at that hour a flag of truce made his appearance; it was Descombiez's servant, and he was the bearer of a letter from Froment, Descombiez and Folacher, styling themselves captains, commanding the towers of the castle. The letter was in these words: To Monsieur le Commandant of the regular troopi, to be communicated to the militia encamped upon the Esplanade. Monsieur: We have been informed that you propose peace; we have always desired peace, and have never done aught to disturb it. If those men who caused the terrible confusion which prevails in the city choose to put an end to their culpable conduct, we offer to forget the past, and to live with them like brothers. We are with all the frankness and loyalty of good patriots and true Frenchmen, your very humble servants, The captains of the Nimes legion, commanding the towers of the castle. froment, Descombiez, Folacher. Nimes, June 14, 1790, 4 o'clock in the evening. In view of the contents of this letter, the city herald was sent to the towers to offer the rebels terms of capitulation. The three leaders came out to confer with the commissioners of the electoral body; they were armed, and attended by a large number of their followers, also VoL VIII.?15. armed. As the negotiators desired the cessation of hostilities before aught else, they proposed to the three leaders to surrender, and place themselves under the safe-guard of the electoral assembly; but they refused to do so. The commissioners thereupon withdrew, and the rebels returned to their intrenchments. ...