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Title: The history of the French Revolution 1789-1800
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Thiers, Adolphe, 1797-1877 Shoberl, Frederic, 1775-1853
Subjects: France -- History Revolution, 1789-1799
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Co.

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ron, and Robespierre the younger were chosen to execute thevenfeance of the Convention on Toulon. Several thousand citizens of every ageand%ex perished in a few weeks by the sword or the guillotine ; two hundredwere daily beheaded for a considerable time ; and twelve thousand labourers werehired to demolish the buildings of the city. Among those who were struckdown in one of the fusillades was an old inan, who was severely but not mortallywounded. The executioners, conceiving him dead, retired from the scene ofcarnage ; and in the darkness of the night he had strength enough left to raisehimself from the ground and move from the spot. His foot struck against abodv, which gave a groan, and stooping down, he discovered that it was his ownson! After the first transports of joy were over, they crept along the ground,and favoured by the night, and the inebriety of the guards, they had the goodfortune to escai)e, and lived to recount a tale which might well have passed forfiction.—Alison.
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22 JULY 1794 THE VRENCn JlEVnjJJTION. 455 revolutionary commission had just given an account of itsproceedings, and furnished the number of the acquitted andof the condemned. One thousand six hundred and eighty-four persons liad been guillotined or shot. One thousand sixhundred and eighty-two had been set at liberty by XXxa juaticeof the commission. The North had its proconsul, Joseph Lebon.* He hadbeen a ))riest, and confessed that in his youth he shouldhave carried religious fanaticism to such a length as to killhis father and mother, had he been enjoined to do so. Hewas a real lunatic, less ferocious perhaps than Carrier, butmore decidedly insane. From his language and from hisconduct it was evident that his mind was deranged. Hehad fixed his principal residence at Arras,t established atribunal with the ap))robation of the committee of i)ublicweliare, and travelled through the departments of the Northwith his judges and a guillotine. He had visited St. Pol,St. Omer, Eethune, Uapeau

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