Why do you think the stone faces on Marquis Evremondes castle looked tormented when the revolutionaries torch up the castle ?

The stone faces served as a symbol of the Marquis, himself.... his destruction.

With the rising and falling of the blaze, the stone faces showed as if they were in torment. When great masses of stone and timber fell, the face with the two dints in the nose became obscured: anon struggled out of the smoke again, as if it were the face of the cruel Marquis, burning at the stake and contending with the fire.