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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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