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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Why, it's like a scene of the Sainte-Vehme, neither more nor less." "And on the blade of the dagger, that there might be no doubt as to who did the deed, were graven the words: 'Companions of Jehu." "Why, it isn't possible that such things can happen in France, in the last year of the eighteenth century. It might do for Germany in the Middle Ages, in the days of the Henrys and the Ottos."
There were younger men, eighteen and twenty, almost children, but children fed, like Achilles, on the marrow of wild beasts, like Pyrrhus, on the flesh of bears; here were the pupil-bandits of Schiller, the apprentice-judges of the Sainte-Vehme that strange generation that follows great political convulsions, like the Titans after chaos, the hydras after the Deluge; as the vultures and crows follow the carnage.
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