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(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.
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