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Thirst for martyrdom devours him. One morning, having kissed his mother, he goes out; he watches for the socialist deputy of his district, sees him, throws himself on him, and buries a poniard in his breast. Long live anarchy! He is arrested, measured, photographed, questioned, judged, condemned to death, and guillotined. That is my novel."
Number of those expelled. Privation of liberty. Different sorts of imprisonment. Number and situation of those imprisoned. Murders after being tried, or without trial. Number of those guillotined or shot after trial. Indication of the number of other lives destroyed. Necessity and plan for wider destruction. Spoliation. Its extent. Squandering. Utter losses. Ruin of individuals and the State.
If a play has a gloomy ending it is promptly denounced as painful by the people who welcome an entertainment consisting of biograph pictures representing some awful catastrophe, and by persons who revel in a good series of animated photographs of somebody being guillotined, or tortured in a Russian gaol, and do not care to waste their tears over the sorrows of people in a play, though perhaps a really roaring farce would entertain them, if it included a good deal of knockabout business.
He died, a very rich man, in England, leaving his fortune to his daughter, who, with her spendthrift husband, the Duc de Bouillon, was guillotined during the French Revolution. The officials were naturally affected by the same uncertainty, which made them more than ever determined to get rich and go home.
"She is no more, Madame," said the Marquis; "she was, unfortunately, guillotined two days before " the father of Madame Louis, he was going to say, when Talleyrand interrupted him with a significant look, and said, "Before the fall of Robespierre, you mean."
When he was on mission in the department of Vaucluse, besides numberless other enormities, he caused the whole town of Bedouin to be burnt, a part of its inhabitants to be guillotined, and the rest dispersed, because the tree of liberty was cut down one dark night, while they were asleep.* * Maignet's order for the burning of Bedouin begins thus: "Liberte, egalite, au nom du peuple Francais!"
Four of them, the ex-mayor, an ex-collector, a district administrator and a notable are sent to the revolutionary Tribunal in Paris, to be guillotined in deference to principles. Thirty-two former officers chevaliers of St.
A touch of strength and determination! Aye! Citizen Collot d'Herbois had plenty of that. Was it he, or Carriere who at Arras commanded mothers to stand by while their children were being guillotined?
I might say: 'Off with his head! if one of my subjects displeased me, and he would be guillotined before you could wink an eye." "How horrid!" said Grace, the shy. "I never could feel that way." "It would never do for Elizabeth to be a grand vizer, or sultan, or satrap," Nan remarked laughingly. "Who wants to be a 'shawl-strap'? Not I!" cried Bess, gaily.
The Abbe Tracassier is in love with a dear friend of mine, and I know all the secrets of state from her and I know what I know. Be as incredulous, as you please, but you will see that, before this week is at end, Monsieur de Fleury will be guillotined, and then what will become of you? Good morning, my proud cousin."
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