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« Reply #45 on: June 08, 2009, 11:00:05 pm »

The young Portefaix’s fight against the Beast

History of the fight of the 7 children from Villeret de Chanaleilles described by the priest of the parish
and requested by the substitute of the intendant of Languedoc in Mende.

Details of the ravages caused by the fierce Beast in the Vivarais and in the Gevaudan, in Auvergne and in Rouergue.

le combat de portefaixOn January 12, the fierce Beast attacked 5 little boys from the village of Villeret in the parish of Chanaleilles.

The three oldest were about eleven years old, the two others were only eight and two little girls of about the same age accompanied them. These children were looking after cattle, on the top of a hill. Each of them was armed with a stick bearing a 4 inches sharp iron blade.

The fierce Beast surprised them as they only saw it when it was near them; they gathered as fast as possible and they took a defensive position.
The Beast got around them two or three times and finally thrusted on one of the smallest boys. The three older boys swooped down on it, stung it on several occasions but could not pierce its skin. However, they made it loose its grip. It step back two feet away after having grabbed a piece of the right cheek of the boy and it ate in front of them this bit of flesh. Soon after, it re-attacked those children with a renewed fury; it took by the arm the smallest of them all and took her in its mouth; one of them was terrified and proposed to the others to escape while it was devouring the one it took but the oldest one, called Portefaix, shouted they had either to free their friend or to die along with him.
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