Chapter 2311 surgeon&sergeant
After the wool-carder Michele de Lando was chosen by the crowd as standard-bearer of justice, his first order was to find a patrol officer named Ser Nuto, who had originally been appointed by Lapo.
No one knew why Michele did that. Perhaps Michele had a private grudge against Nuto, or perhaps there was another reason. In any case, Michele's followers began carrying out the order, and a large crowd dragged Ser Nuto into the courtyard. To instill fear in everyone, Michele erected a gallows there. When Ser Nuto arrived, Michele ordered one of Nuto's feet tied to the gallows and had him hung upside down. The people around him soon tore Nuto to pieces. In the blink of an eye, the entire corpse had been shredded, leaving only the foot still tied to the frame.
Crowds were often frenzied and extreme, with only two attitudes: complete acceptance or total rejection. When the people of Paris stormed the Palace of Versailles, their fury might have driven them to tear the queen apart. The nobles set up barricades throughout the palace, but fighting them with "fortifications" was useless. Instead, Lafayette, who had gone off for a nap because he was too exhausted, appeared, and the scene immediately calmed down.
Violence could not stop people driven by passion. They would blindly obey the orders of someone they barely knew and cruelly kill someone they were scarcely acquainted with. But if all they felt was disgust, they would not listen to a word she said.
If possible, women should try not to become detestable. That was survival wisdom accumulated by women over many years. When Josephine was rumored to be having an affair while Bonaparte was in Egypt, and later when Bonaparte found new lovers elsewhere, people still took his side.