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Meantime another bunch of keys was found, and the executioners, led by Ferré, Lolive, and Mégy, that member of the Commune whom none of them seemed to know, hurried upstairs. In the crowd were gamins and women, National Guards, Garibaldians, and others, but chiefly the Vengeurs de Flourens, a corps of which an Englishman who served the Commune said: "They were to a man all blackguards."
As Ferré was giving the order to fire, the archbishop raised his right hand in order to give, as his last act, his episcopal blessing. As he did so, Lolive exclaimed: "That's your benediction is it? now take mine!" and shot the old man through the body with a revolver. All were shot dead at once, save M. Bonjean.
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