When the Cagot died, he was interred apart, in a plot burying-ground on the north side of the
cemetery. Under such laws and prescriptions as I have described, it is no wonder that he was
generally too poor to have much property for his children to inherit; but certain descrip-tions of it
were forfeited to the commune. The only pos-session which all who were not of his own race
refused to touch, was his furniture. That was tainted, infectious, unclean--fit for none but Cagots..