82 KEMOIBS OF THE DUKE OF SAINT-SIMON".

The treatment that these nuns received in their various
prisons, in order to force them to sign a condemnation of them-
selves, is the matter of other volumes, which, in spite of the
vigilance of the oppressors, were soon in everybody's hands;
public indignation so burst out, that the Court and the Jesuits
even were embarrassed with it. But the Pere Tellier was not
a man to stop half-way anywhere. He finished this matter
directly; decree followed decree, lettres de cachet followed
lettres de cachet. The families who had relatives buried in the
cemetery of Port Eoyal des Champs were ordered to exhume
and carry them elsewhere. All the others were thrown into
the cemetery of an adjoining parish, with the indecency that
may be imagined. Afterwards, the house, the church, and all
the buildings were razed to the ground, so that not one stone
was left upon another. All the materials were sold, the ground
was ploughed up, and sown—not with salt, it is true, but that
was all the favour it received! The scandal at this reached
even to Rome. I have restricted myself to this simple and
.short recital of an expedition so military and so odious.