Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward (1904)
Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935 · London : J. M. Dent & co.; New York, The Macmillan co. · leaf 385
leading for mercy, but without avail. Atthree oclock on Sunday morning the final voting was over.Six hundred and ninety members were present, of whom threehundred and eighty voted for death within twenty-four hours.To the guillotine on the fatal Place de la Revolution,formerly Place Louis XV., the… … EiKiEL Tower. EXECUTION OF THE KING 261 the people, Santerre ordered the drums to beat—it was theecho of the drums reverberating through history which hadsmothered the cries of the Protestant martyrs sent to thescaffold by the fourteenth Louis a century before. This was thebeginning of that annee…
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