Volume 2 (of 6) 35/52 A woman had assassinated her husband, while a soldier who was her lover is her accomplice; the woman was about to be hung and the man broken on the wheel, when the populace shout, "The nation has the right of pardon," upset the scaffold, and save the two assassins.] [Footnote 1410: Bailly, II. 274 (August 17th).] [Footnote 1411: Bailly, II, 83, 202, 230, 235, 283, 299.] [Footnote 1412: Mercure de France, the number for September 26th .-- De Goncourt, p. 111.] [Footnote 1413: Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," I, 58; X.151.] [Footnote 1414: De Ferrieres, I.178 .-- Buchez and Roux, II. 104, 174, 207, 246, 257, 282.] [Footnote 1415: Mercure de France, September 5th, 1789. |