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The truth is that three soldiers slept in her room, three of the brigand ruffians called houspilleurs; that she was chained to a beam by a large iron chain, almost wholly at their mercy; the man's dress they wished to compel her to discontinue was all her safeguard. What are we to think of the imbecility of the judge, or of his horrible connivance?
These men commanded a set of soldiers called houspilleurs, placed in the cell of the prisoner day and night. According to J. Bellow's pocket dictionary, the term houspilleur is derived from the old French term houspiller Ang. 'to worry. And these fellows certainly carried out that meaning of the word.
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