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Unceasing employment of the Guillotine 77
"Les tricoteuses" 77
The Procureur-Général's complaint 78
Chaumette and Gobel—the Goddess of Reason 78
Robespierre's policy 79
His acknowledgment of a Supreme Being 79
The Guillotine's removals 79
Execution of the Marquise de Feuquières 80
Number of victims at the Barrière du Trône 81
Creditable conduct of Sanson 81
Execution of Robespierre 82
The Guillotine in the Departments 82
Execution of Fouquier-Tinville 83
The Guillotine after the Restoration, and under Louis-Philippe 84
 
Appendix:—
Note on Sanson and his family 85
Sanson's letter on the behaviour of the King at his execution 87
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