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Moreover
,
the
prison
authorities
could
not
act
in
the
same
way
as
the
religious
and
,
to
a
lesser
extent
,
military
authorities
.
The
monks
from
the
only
two
convents
in
the
town
had
been
dispersed
and
housed
provisionally
in
pious
families
.
In
the
same
way
,
wherever
possible
,
small
groups
of
men
had
been
taken
out
of
barracks
and
billeted
on
schools
or
public
buildings
.
In
this
way
,
the
disease
which
had
apparently
brought
the
inhabitants
of
Oran
together
in
the
solidarity
of
people
under
siege
,
at
the
same
time
broke
up
traditional
associations
and
drove
individuals
back
into
solitude
.
There
was
dismay
.
As
you
might
imagine
,
all
these
circumstances
,
together
with
the
wind
,
inflamed
some
people
’
s
minds
.
Again
,
the
gates
of
the
town
were
repeatedly
attacked
at
night
,
but
this
time
by
small
armed
groups
.
There
were
exchanges
of
fire
,
a
few
wounded
and
some
escapes
.
The
sentry
posts
were
reinforced
and
such
attacks
quite
quickly
ceased
.
They
were
enough
,
however
,
to
raise
a
breath
of
revolt
in
the
town
,
which
led
to
some
scenes
of
violence
.
Houses
that
had
been
set
on
fire
or
shut
up
for
health
reasons
were
pillaged
.
In
fact
,
it
was
hard
to
believe
that
such
actions
were
premeditated
.
Most
often
,
a
sudden
opportunity
would
lead
hitherto
honest
citizens
to
reprehensible
actions
,
which
were
promptly
imitated
.
So
it
might
happen
that
some
maniacs
would
dash
into
a
still
burning
house
,
right
in
front
of
the
owner
,
who
was
dazed
and
distressed
.
Seeing
that
he
did
nothing
,
several
onlookers
would
follow
the
example
of
the
first
vandals
and
by
the
light
of
the
fire
,
in
this
dark
side
-
street
,
silhouettes
could
be
seen
fleeing
in
all
directions
,
deformed
by
.
the
dying
flames
and
by
the
objects
or
the
furniture
which
they
carried
on
their
shoulders
.
It
was
these
incidents
that
forced
the
authorities
to
compare
the
plague
to
a
state
of
siege
and
to
apply
the
appropriate
laws
.
Two
thieves
were
shot
,
but
it
is
doubtful
whether
this
made
much
impression
on
the
rest
,
since
,
in
the
midst
of
so
much
death
,
these
two
executions
passed
unnoticed
—
they
were
a
drop
in
the
ocean
.
And
the
truth
was
that
similar
events
occurred
quite
frequently
without
the
authorities
giving
any
sign
of
intervention
.
The
only
measure
that
seemed
to
impress
all
the
inhabitants
was
the
imposition
of
a
curfew
.
After
eleven
o
’
clock
,
plunged
into
darkness
,
the
town
was
like
a
monument
.
Under
a
moonlit
sky
,
its
whitish
walls
and
regular
streets
extended
in
straight
lines
,
never
broken
by
the
black
shape
of
a
tree
,
never
disturbed
by
the
steps
of
a
passer
-
by
or
the
howl
of
a
dog
.
The
silent
town
was
henceforth
a
heap
of
massive
,
motionless
cubes
between
which
the
mute
statues
of
forgotten
benefactors
or
former
great
men
,
stifled
for
ever
in
bronze
,
were
left
alone
trying
with
their
imitation
faces
in
stone
or
iron
to
suggest
a
degraded
image
of
what
the
man
used
to
be
.
These
mediocre
idols
reigned
beneath
a
heavy
sky
on
lifeless
crossroads
,
unfeeling
brutes
who
evoked
rather
well
the
state
of
immobility
into
which
we
had
drifted
—
or
at
least
its
final
state
,
that
of
a
necropolis
in
which
plague
,
stone
and
night
would
finally
have
silenced
every
voice
.
*
*
*
But
night
was
also
in
every
heart
,
and
the
facts
,
as
well
as
the
myths
,
that
were
passed
around
about
burials
were
not
likely
to
reassure
our
fellow
-
citizens
.
It
really
is
necessary
to
speak
about
burials
,
and
the
narrator
apologizes
for
the
fact
.
He
is
well
aware
of
the
criticism
that
might
be
levelled
against
him
in
this
respect
,
and
his
only
justification
is
that
there
were
burials
throughout
this
time
and
that
,
in
a
sense
,
he
was
forced
,
like
all
the
other
people
of
the
town
,
to
concern
himself
with
them
.
It
is
not
that
he
has
a
taste
for
this
kind
of
ceremony
—
on
the
contrary
,
he
prefers
the
company
of
the
living
and
,
if
you
want
an
example
,
likes
sea
bathing
.
But
the
fact
is
that
sea
bathing
had
been
forbidden
and
the
company
of
the
living
was
in
constant
fear
of
being
obliged
to
give
way
to
that
of
the
dead
.
This
is
obvious
.
Of
course
one
could
always
try
not
to
see
,
cover
one
’
s
eyes
and
reject
the
obvious
,
but
it
has
a
terrible
force
that
eventually
carries
all
before
it
.
For
example
,
how
can
you
avoid
burials
when
the
day
comes
when
someone
you
love
has
need
of
one
?
Well
,
the
main
feature
of
our
ceremonies
at
the
start
was
speed
!
All
the
formalities
were
simplified
and
in
general
funerary
pomp
and
circumstance
were
discarded
.
Victims
died
far
from
their
families
and
the
ritual
watch
over
the
dead
was
banned
,
so
the
person
who
died
in
the
evening
passed
the
night
alone
and
the
one
who
died
in
the
day
was
buried
as
quickly
as
possible
.
Of
course
,
the
family
was
informed
,
but
in
most
cases
its
members
could
not
attend
,
since
they
were
in
quarantine
if
they
had
been
living
with
the
sick
person
.
In
cases
where
the
family
had
not
lived
with
the
deceased
,
they
would
arrive
at
the
appointed
time
for
departure
towards
the
cemetery
,
the
corpse
having
already
been
laid
out
and
put
in
the
coffin
.
Suppose
this
formality
had
taken
place
in
the
auxiliary
hospital
where
Dr
Rieux
was
in
charge
.
The
school
had
an
exit
sited
behind
the
main
building
and
there
were
coffins
in
a
large
box
-
room
off
the
corridor
.
In
the
corridor
itself
,
the
family
discovered
a
single
coffin
,
already
closed
.
Immediately
,
they
got
on
with
the
most
important
task
,
which
was
to
have
some
documents
signed
by
the
head
of
the
family
.
After
that
the
coffin
was
loaded
into
a
motor
vehicle
,
which
was
either
a
proper
hearse
or
a
large
ambulance
appropriately
modified
.
