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... appearance excited far more curiosity than the records of an ordinary execu- tioner could have commanded . In fact the author was a personage in his own way . He was the lineal descend- ant of a race of headsmen through whose hands ...
... appearance excited far more curiosity than the records of an ordinary execu- tioner could have commanded . In fact the author was a personage in his own way . He was the lineal descend- ant of a race of headsmen through whose hands ...
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... appearance of M. de Blignac marred my lecture . The latter when I left him had some suspicion of what was going to take place , and he arrived in great hurry . I changed my tone , and speaking to him I indignantly told him what I ...
... appearance of M. de Blignac marred my lecture . The latter when I left him had some suspicion of what was going to take place , and he arrived in great hurry . I changed my tone , and speaking to him I indignantly told him what I ...
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... appeared to me so beautiful that my good intentions vanished like smoke . I was neither wiser nor more dis- creet than he would have been , and I committed the crime for which I had upbraided him so bitterly . May God forgive me in ...
... appeared to me so beautiful that my good intentions vanished like smoke . I was neither wiser nor more dis- creet than he would have been , and I committed the crime for which I had upbraided him so bitterly . May God forgive me in ...
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... appeared to me a man of strange temper , I had never imagined that he exercised a profession for which I felt loathing and contempt . And yet , in spite of my aversion for the father , I could not help thinking that it was unjust to ...
... appeared to me a man of strange temper , I had never imagined that he exercised a profession for which I felt loathing and contempt . And yet , in spite of my aversion for the father , I could not help thinking that it was unjust to ...
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... appearance he owed to his avocations . At Rouen he was avoided with something like terror ; when he passed through the streets , the inhabitants pointed out to each other the man who all over his person bore the marks of a stormy ...
... appearance he owed to his avocations . At Rouen he was avoided with something like terror ; when he passed through the streets , the inhabitants pointed out to each other the man who all over his person bore the marks of a stormy ...
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Abbeville accomplices ALFRED CONCANEN ancestor Angélique answered appeared arrested asked assistants Barre became blood capital punishment Cartouche Cartouche's Charles Henri Sanson Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson Charles Sanson Châtelet Chevalier cloth extra Coloured Conciergerie Count de Horn Count de Lally Court Créqy crime criminal lieutenant crowd Crown 8vo culprit Damiens death Duke Edition Engravings execution executioner executioner's father favour Favras Fcap folio France Gabriel Sanson gilt edges Gorsas grandfather guillotine half-morocco hand heard honour Hôtel-de-Ville Illustrations inflicted Jean Jeanne Jouanne justice King Lally Lally-Tollendal Lally's Larcher livres looked Louis Louis XIV Madame magistrate Marquis Marquis de Favras Marthe Dubut Master Mdme memoirs ment Motte murder numerous Paris Parliament Place de Grève Plates Portrait prince prisoner profession punishment Regent Reynie Royal Sanson de Longval scaffold sentence soldiers suffered sword taken tion Tiquet told took torture trial victim Vols wife wished words young
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