 On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly the wives of peasants, were placed together on the chariot ; some died on the way, and the wretches guillotined their lifeless remains. One kept her infant in her bosom till she reached the foot of...  History of Europe (from 1789 to 1815). - Page 354by sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers - 1838 - 516 pages
...says Riouffe, ' the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...the foot of the scaffold ; the executioners tore the baby from her breast as she suckled it for the last time, and the screams of maternal agony were only... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1840 - 492 pages
..., , '- garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' On another occasion, twenty women of 1 oilc '' chiefly the wives of peasants, were placed together on the chariot ; some died on the way, an wretches guillotined their lifeless remains. One kept her infant in her bosom till she rnn'hi' foot... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl - France - 1850 - 908 pages
...says Riouffe, ' the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by:a tempest/ On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...the foot of the scaffold ; the executioners tore the baby from her breast as she suckled it for the last time, and the screams of maternal agony were only... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 376 pages
...says Riouffe, " the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest" On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...some died on the way, and the wretches guillotined then- lifeless remains ; one kept her infant in her bosom till she reached the foot of the scaffold;... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1862 - 644 pages
...says Riouffe, ' the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...bosom till she reached the foot of the scaffold; the executioner tore ths baby from her breast, ns she suckled it for the last time, and the screams of... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 650 pages
...says Riouffe, ' the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...her infant in her bosom till she reached the foot of tho scaffold ; the executioner tore the baby from her breast, as she suckled it for the last time,... | |
 | Adolphe Thiers - France - 1866 - 462 pages
...says Riouffe, 'the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...infant in her bosom till she reached the foot of the sea Hold ; the executioners tore the baby from her breast as she suckled it for the last time, and... | |
 | Michael Paget Baxter - Bible - 1867 - 462 pages
...to execution ; fourteen young women of Verdun, of the most attractive form, were cnt off together. On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...the executioners tore the innocent from her breast, and the screams of maternal agony were only stifled with her life. . . . " The career of Carrier at... | |
 | Fortuné Francis Benvenuti - France - 1880 - 348 pages
...says Riouffe, 'the court of the prison looked like a garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest.' " " On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou, chiefly...the foot of the scaffold; the executioners tore the baby from her breast as she suckled it for the last time, and the screams of her maternal agony were... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - History - 1885 - 556 pages
...garden bereaved of its flowers by a tempest." On another occasion, twenty women of Poitou (pwah-too'), chiefly the wives of peasants, were placed together...the executioners tore the innocent from her breast, and the screams of maternal agony were only stifled with her life 14. Such accumulated horrors annihilated... | |
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