celin Boudet, 270. (Testimony of Bardaneche de
Bayonne.)]
[Footnote 32159: Guil1on, "Histoire de la ville de Lyons pendant la
Revolution," II., 427, 431, 433.]
[Footnote 32160: "Memoire du Citoyen Freron," (in the Barriere
collection,) p.357. (Testimony of a survivor.)]
[Footnote 32161: Paris, II., 32]
[Footnote 32162: Delandine, "Tableaux des prisons de Lyons," p.14.]
[Footnote 32163: Camille Boursier, "Essai sur la Terreur en Anjou,"
164. (Letter of Boniface, ex-Benedictine, president of the Revolutionary
committee, to Representative Richard, Brumaire 3, year II.) "We send you
the said Henri Verdier, called de la Sauriniere.... It will not be
long before you will see that we make the guillotine a present....
The Committee begs you to send him sacram sanctam guillotinam, and the
republican minister of his worship... Not an hour of the day passes
that new members do not come to us whom we desire to initiate in its
mysteries, (sic)."]
[Footnote 32164: Thibaudeau, "Histoire du Terrorisme dans le department
de la Vienne," 34, 48.--Berryat Saint-Prix, 239.]
[Footnote 32165: Archives Nationales F.7, 4435. (Letter of Lebon,
Floreal 23, year II.)--Paris, I. 241.]
[Footnote 32166: Buchez et Roux, XXXIV., 184, 200. (Depositions of
Chaux, Monneron and Villemain.)]
[Footnote 32167: Register of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Nantes,
copied by M. Chevrier. (M. Chevrier has kindly sent me his manuscript
copy.)--Berryat Saint-Prix, 94.--Archives Nationales, F7. 4591. (Extract
from the acts of the Legislative Committee, session of Floreal 3, year
III. Restitution of the confiscated property of Alexander Long to his
son.) Dartigoyte, at Auch, did what Carrier did at Nantes. "It follows
from the above abstract duly signed that on the 27th Germinal, year II.,
between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, Alexandre Long, Sr.,
was put to death on the public square of the commune of Auch by the
executioner of criminal sentences, without any judgment having been
rendered against the said Long."--In many places an execution becomes
a spectacle for the Jacobins of the town and a party of pleasure. For
instance, at Arras, on the square devoted to executions, a gallery was
erected for spectators with a room for the sale of refreshments, and,
during the execution of M. de Montgon, the "Ca ira" is played on
the bass drum. (Paris, II., 158, and I., 159.) A certain facetious
representative has rehearsals of the performance in his
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