[The Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) by Hippolyte A. Taine]@TWC D-Link bookThe Origins of Contemporary France Volume 3 (of 6) CHAPTER I 86/97
According to the bulletin of the revolutionary tribunal, number for Sept. 3 .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, III.291.Deposition of the caretaker's office of the Conciergerie prison .-- Buchez et Roux, XVII.198.
"Histoire des hommes de proi," by Roch Marcandier.] [Footnote 31111: Mortimer-Ternaux III, 257.
Trial of the September murderers; deposition of Roussel .-- Ib., 628.] [Footnote 31112: Deposition of the woman Millet, ibid., 63 .-- Weber, II. 350 .-- --Roch Marcandier, 197, 198 .-- Retif de la Bretonne, 381.] [Footnote 31113: Deposition of the woman Millet, ibid., 63 .-- Weber, II. 350 .-- --Roch Marcandier, 197, 198 .-- Retif de la Bretonne, 381.] [Footnote 31114: On this mechanical and murderous action Cf: Dusaulx, "Memoires," 440.
He addresses the bystanders in favor of the prisoners, and, affected by his words, they hold out their hands to him.
"But before this the executioners had struck me on the cheeks with the points of their pikes, from which hung pieces of flesh.
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