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The poor syndic of the furriers of Paris was filled with the keenest joy at not seeing his son among the fifty-seven gentlemen who were condemned to die. At a sign from the Duc de Guise, the clerk seated on the scaffold cried in a loud voice: "Jean-Louis-Alberic, Baron de Raunay, guilty of heresy, of the crime of lese-majeste, and assault with armed hand against the person of the king."
Such other brave men and noble gentlemen as the Baron de Castelnau Chalosse and the Baron de Raunay were spared for a sadder fate, while for the Prince of Condé there was reserved the crowning horror of seeing his followers beheaded one by one.
"Robert-Jean-Rene Briquemart, Comte de Villemongis, guilty of the crime of lese-majeste, and of attempts against the person of the king!" called the clerk. The count dipped his hands in the blood of the Baron de Raunay, and said: "May this blood recoil upon those who are really guilty of those crimes." The Reformers chanted:
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