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(Depositions of Chaux, Monneron and Villemain.)] [Footnote 32167: Register of the Revolutionary Tribunal of Nantes, copied by M.Chevrier.
(M.Chevrier has kindly sent me his manuscript copy.)--Berryat Saint-Prix, 94 .-- Archives Nationales, F7.4591.
(Extract from the acts of the Legislative Committee, session of Floreal 3, year III.
Restitution of the confiscated property of Alexander Long to his son.) Dartigoyte, at Auch, did what Carrier did at Nantes.
"It follows from the above abstract duly signed that on the 27th Germinal, year II., between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, Alexandre Long, Sr., was put to death on the public square of the commune of Auch by the executioner of criminal sentences, without any judgment having been rendered against the said Long."-- In many places an execution becomes a spectacle for the Jacobins of the town and a party of pleasure.
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