In a few moments, Coursegol was condemned to suffer death upon the guillotine for having been guilty of the heinous crime of insulting the court in the exercise of its functions, and of uttering seditious words in its presence.
I have succeeded in cheating the guillotine of its prey, and I will tell you how in as few words as I can.
She was half-dead with fear when she was carried up the steps of the guillotine an hour later.
I simply asked for his warrant, under his own signature and the great seal of the Republic, to save from prison and the guillotine two of my friends who were accused of crimes of which they were entirely innocent.
Neither Philip nor Antoinette must know that we have escaped the guillotine until they find us alive and well in the Chévreuse valley!
At the foot of the guillotine steps she had fainted dead away in the assistant's arms.
Meanwhile Bridoul and the clerks had mounted the guillotinesteps and were standing on the platform of death, facing the awed and amazed mob.
Her foot was already on the first step of the guillotine platform, when suddenly there was a great commotion in the crowd and a stentorian voice cried out: "In the name of the Republic, hold!
Sibour's smile, and the arm of the Marchioness of Douglas on which to enter the ballroom; but all this is not enough; he must have the guillotine to boot; he must have some of those red baskets among his baskets of champagne.
On that tribune the guillotine had its orator, Marat; and the Inquisition its Montalembert.
Now they show themselves, they fear nothing, they guillotine in broad day.
We perceive '93 only through its justification, and Napoleon only through his caricature; the foolish fear of the guillotine vanishes, the empty imperial popularity disappears.
Only, as then I felt I was speaking of another person, now I seemed to be talking of myself when I came to the part of walking up the guillotine steps.
I was so stunned, all I could think of was to wonder if it was the same rose she walked up the guillotine steps with.
I doubt if there is such a thing as a guillotinein the whole island.
The shadow of the guillotine seemed to brood oppressively over the scene, and, shuddering, we hastened away.
The final tableau revealed her, footsore and weary, reaching within sight of the guillotine just in time to see the executioner holding up her son's severed head.
The knife of the guillotine was termed in ’93, “rasoir national.
The scenes about the guillotine were simply infernal.
I can see a red line round your neck--the guillotine is waiting for you.
I told you hisguillotine followed between two cannon, and I believe if the cannon could have got away the guillotine would have been left to go its way alone.
They have a guillotine with them, and the commissioner of the executive power, Millière.
Bonaparte, "the guillotine has been moved to the Barrière du Trône.
To-night they came and told me that Millière and hisguillotine were at La Roche-Bernard.
On the spot where the guillotine had stood he stopped, provided with the proper emotions.
In former times, when engaged with Abbe Rose in charitable work in the Charonne district, he had learnt that the guillotine could be seen from the house where Mege, the Socialist deputy, resided at the corner of the Rue Merlin.
It then seemed to Guillaume that the guillotine was really in its right place in that district of want and toil.
It was now half-past three, and the guillotine was nearly ready.
Under the guillotine fell during this month the head of the queen's friend, the Princess de Lamballe, who was followed in crowds by the king's faithful adherents, sealing their loyalty and their love with their death.
One of the gendarmes has at last the courage to do so, and Marie Antoinette thanks him with a look which brings tears in the eyes of the gendarme, and which may perchance cause his death to-morrow under the guillotine as a traitor!
She was not satisfied with having brought to the guillotine more than ten thousand aristocrats and royalists, to terrify the faithful adherents and servants of the throne.
The king's execution was the signal-fire which announced to the horrified world the beginning of the reign of terror, and told Europe that in France the throne had been torn down, and in its stead the guillotine erected.
A few months after, the prince paid with his life the contemplated attempt to migrate; his sister, the Princess von Hohenzollern, was saved from the guillotine through accident.
Uninterruptedly had the guillotine for the last three months of the year 1793 continued its destructive work of murder, and the noblest and worthiest heads had fallen under this reaper of Death.
Pleasure, which had fled away horrified from the guillotine and from the terrorists, dared once more to show its rose-wreathed brow and smiling countenance, and here and there make its cheerful festivities resound.
But Marie Antoinette has already unveiled her heart to God; she will have none of these priests of reason, whom the republic has ordained, after having exiled or murdered with the guillotine the priests of the Church.
The guillotine was again uncovered, and the great crimson drapery, torn into fragments, was waved about like flags, or twisted into uncouth head-dresses.
The Convention trust him, the sans-culottes are afraid of him, and the few men of family whom the guillotine has left look up to him as one of their stanchest adherents.
What need of the guillotine there--the lamp of life was in its last flicker without it.
I remembered, too, another night when the sky had been my canopy in Paris, when I slept beneath the shadow of the guillotine and the Place de Greve.
In the ribald language of the day, the 'holy guillotine had grown thirsty from long drought'; and they read the announcement with greedy eyes, commenting as they went upon those whose names were familiar to them.
His head was to be cut off by the guillotine that was being erected on the plantation.
The guillotinewas designed by one Schmidt, a German engineer and artificer of musical instruments.
Her long hair was shorn, that the knife of the guillotine might more keenly cut its way.
Some were dragged by a deriding mob to the guillotine to bleed beneath its keen knife.
She received them with a smiling face, though she must have been quaking with fear, since her intimacy with the Prince de Condé and other distinguished émigrés was sufficient to have sent her to the guillotine a dozen times over.
Blood flowed like water, the guillotine was never idle, the prisons were crowded, while the pageant of rank and fashion resumed its old course, and went on as merrily as before.
For it is a matter of history that the commissaries of the Convention did not scruple to guillotine those who withheld their grain from the market, and pitilessly executed those who speculated in foodstuffs.
They were coming to dread and detest "democracy" as dangerous to the family and to society as well as to government, and to identify it with the guillotine and the blasphemies of the Worship of Reason.
Communicate this to the cruiser, capture the corvette, guillotine the man.
The guillotine showed forth but one year,--'93; but these twelve months were a fitting counterpoise for those fifteen centuries.
He alone could pardon; there were no limits to his authority; it needed but a sign from him to set Gauvain at liberty; life and death were in his hands; the guillotine was at his command.
For each public box there was a similar candelabra; and on the pedestals of these candelabra circles were carved, which the people called "guillotine collars.
They surrounded the guillotine on three sides, forming themselves around it after a geometrical fashion in the shape of the letter E; the battery placed against the centre of the longest line made the notch of the E.
The grewsome law against the suspected, which was the crime of Merlin de Douai, held a vision of the guillotine suspended over every head.
The shadow cast upon the grass by the guillotine lessened as the sun rose.
The guillotine had a right to say to the dungeon: "I am thy daughter.
As early as the sixteenth century the modern guillotine already existed in Scotland under the name of the Maiden, and English historians relate that Lord Morton, regent of Scotland during the minority of James VI.
The guillotine," he said, "does all; the guillotine governs.
Barère exclaimed that the guillotine had cut a diplomatic knot which it might have been difficult to untie.
But at that time eight or ten necks a day were thought an ample allowance for the guillotine of the capital.
France was to be divided into circuits; itinerant revolutionary tribunals, composed of trusty Jacobins, were to move from department to department; and the guillotine was to travel in their train.
A double line of carbineers, placed on each side of the door of the church, reached to the scaffold, and formed a circle around it, leaving a path about ten feet wide, and around the guillotine a space of nearly a hundred feet.
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