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He never appeared in their presence without insulting them, and encouraging with loud laughter those who imitated him in this. Some of the officials in charge never spoke excepting with dreadful abuse of the king, the queen, and the children. One of them cried to his comrade in presence of Marie Antoinette: "If the hangman does not guillotine this accursed family, I will do it!"
Like all the performers belonging to the Theatre Francais, Mademoiselle RAUCOURT was imprisoned during the reign of terror. The patriots of that day bore her much ill-will, and it is asserted that Robespierre had a strong desire to send her to the guillotine.
"And you wished to send one of them to the guillotine in order to make way for the other? Was that it?" "Was that it?" he repeated, suddenly seizing one of her wrists, and giving it as savage twist, so that she almost screamed with the pain. "Yes," she replied firmly.
Was it regret that darkened the brows of the regicides as they looked upon this building, which had been the sad prison of the king and queen? Those hearts of bronze knew no regret; and when the heroes of the revolution crossed the Place de la Guillotine, on which the royal victims had perished, their eyes flashed more proudly, and did not fall even when they passed by the Madelaine churchyard.
And in the corner what do you think there is? There is an actual GUILLOTINE. If you doubt me, go and see Gale, High Holborn, No. 47. It is a slim instrument, much slighter than those which they make now; some nine feet high, narrow, a pretty piece of upholstery enough. As Pinto looked at it Mr.
Others were walking slowly to and fro, and conversing in undertones. The brothers, for their part, approached the guillotine. It stood there under the branches of the trees, amidst the delicate greenery of the fresh leaves of spring. A neighbouring gas-lamp, whose light was turning yellow in the rising dawn, cast vague gleams upon it.
Cathelineau alluded to the name which the republicans had given to the royalists at the commencement of the war. "It little matters to me," said Quetineau, "what becomes of me; were you to give me unconditional liberty, I should go to Paris and the Convention would accuse me of betraying my trust, and I should become another victim of the guillotine."
Carts leave Toulouse conveying its parliamentarians to Paris to undergo capital punishment. At Aix, writes an agent, "the guillotine is going to work on former lawyers a few hundred heads legally taken off will do the greatest good."
No wonder she is silent. Think what her life has been. As a child, three years of semi-captivity at the Tuileries, with the mob howling round the railings. Three and a half years a prisoner in the Temple. Both parents sent to the guillotine her aunt to the same. All her world massacred.
Burke's assertions, or fulfilling his predictions, had so increased my reverence for the work, that I regarded it as a kind of political oracle. I did not, however, destroy it without an apologetic apostrophe to the author's benevolence, which I am sure would suffer, were he to be the occasion, though involuntarily, of conducting a female to a prison or the Guillotine.
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