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Among them were the Dukes of Orleans, Rochefoucault, and Liancourt, Count Lally Tollendal, the two brothers Lameth, Clermont Tonnerre, and the Marquis de La Fayette, all of whom were guillotined or exiled during the revolution. The discussions in the Assembly did not equal the tumults of the people.
Yet was it not just that Charles X. should cause an expiatory ceremony to be celebrated at the place where his unfortunate brother had been guillotined? Was not that for a pious sovereign the accomplishment of a sacred duty? It matters not; there were those who reproached him with this homage to the most memorable of misfortunes.
Duvillard, Duthil, and other friends had been supping with her at one o'clock in the morning, when on learning that Salvat was about to be guillotined, the fancy of seeing the execution had suddenly come upon her.
Her first husband, Lavoisier, the chemist, had been guillotined at the Revolution, and she was now a widow, but had lived long separated from her second husband. She was enormously rich, and had a magnificent palace, garden, and conservatory, in which she gave balls and concerts. At all the evening parties in Paris the best bedroom was lighted up for reception like the other rooms.
I fancy that citizen Chauvelin and citizen Collot would have quite a tale to tell about him." "They ought both to have been guillotined for that blunder last autumn at Boulogne." "Take care that the same accusation be not laid at your door this year, my friend," commented de Batz placidly. "Bah!" "The Scarlet Pimpernel is in Paris even now." "The devil he is!" "And on what errand, think you?"
"Oh hardly guillotined I should say," remarked t-d, in a voice which froze my marrow despite my high spirits; while the cook and carpenter gaped audibly and the mechanician clutched a hopelessly smashed carburetor for support. One of the section's voitures, a F.I.A.T., was standing ready. A. in particular, impressed me as being almost menacing.
"But you, I think, belong to an even earlier day..." "I, madame? And why do you say that?" "I should have been guillotined under the Terror; but you, monsieur, you should have been hanged long before that hanged for a buccaneer on the Spanish Main." "Madame may be right," said Duchemin, amused. "And quite possibly I was, you know."
We have been detained here much beyond our time, by a circumstance infinitely shocking, though, in fact, not properly a subject of regret. One of the assassins of General Dillon was this morning guillotined before the hotel where we are lodged.
It is done. They guillotined him this morning. He died very well! very well! That gave me pleasure! How fine it is to see a man's head cut off! Now, I shall wait, I can wait. It would take such a little thing to let myself be caught. The manuscript contained more pages, but told of no new crime.
"Respect the law, friends!" said Monsieur Mouilleron. "Wouldn't you prefer to see him guillotined?" said one of the gendarmes to an angry group. "Yes, yes, they shall guillotine him!" shouted one madman. "They are going to guillotine him!" cried the women. By the time they reached the end of the Grande-Narette the crowd were shouting: "They are taking him to the guillotine!"
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