Book the Second: CHAPTER XXII. The Sea Still Rises
Contains spoilers
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Summary
- -Defarge arrives in Saint Antoine with news of the capture of Foulon, a wealthy man who once declared that people should eat grass if they were starving.
- -The revolutionaries string Foulon up, but the rope breaks and he does not die until his third hanging.
- -The peasants put his head on a pike and fill his mouth with grass.
- -When they have finished, the peasants eat their “scanty and insufficient suppers,” parents play with their children, and lovers love.