On the 11 Thermidor, seventy members, officers, or partisans of the Commune of Paris, were sent to the guillotine in only two batches.

THE INSURRECTIONARIES When the Receiver Guilfords, great and small, set their official guillotines at work lopping off department heads, they commonly ignore a consequence overlooked by many; namely, the possible effect of such wholesale changes in leadership upon the rank and file.

When you come to think of it, it is hard to come to the guillotine for a diamond that never existed, is it not?" I agreed with him, and then suggested that we should amuse ourselves by endeavouring to find out how the dinner at the Café des Ambassadeurs was progressing.

Towards the close of the monthafter almost fainting at the execution by guillotine of three banditshe professes impatience to get back to Mariana, and early in the next we find him established with her near Venice, at the villa of La Mira, where for some time he continued to reside.

Above sixty people were guillotined as accomplices, and their bodies thrown into pits, dug by order of the representative, Magnet, (then on mission,) before their death.

On his second visit he joined the Girondists, or the moderate Republicans, and only the decision of his relatives, who cut off his allowance and hurried him back to England, prevented his going headlong to the guillotine with the leaders of his party.

I have witnessed an execution by the guillotine on the Place de Grève near the Hôtel de Ville.

One of the assassins of General Dillon was this morning guillotined before the hotel where we are lodged.

Even away in Martinique this social earthquake was felt, which had already, in France, flung out the bloody guillotine from its relentless crater.

The followers of the national revolutionary cultin the style of Danton, or of Robespierrewere the bitterest adversaries of the internationalism of today; though they did not always agree perfectly amongst themselves, and the friends of Danton and Robespierre, with the shadow of the guillotine between them, hurled the epithet of heretic at each other with the deadliest threats.

FABRE D'EGLANTINE, a French dramatic poet, born at Carcassonne; wrote comedies; was a member of the Convention and of the Committee of Public Safety, of the extreme party of the Revolution; falling under suspicion, was guillotined along with Danton (1752-1794).

Some of them returned to their homes, preferring the guillotine to starvation, others, disguised in peasants' blouses, tried to reach Rouërie in La Vendée, some died from hardship, some committed suicide, while the bulk regained Liège and there waited as suppliants for assistance from Vienna.

And why do you say that?" "I should have been guillotined under the Terror; but you, monsieur, you should have been hanged long before thathanged for a buccaneer on the Spanish Main.