The Reign of Terror; A Collection of Authentic Narratives of the Horrors Committed by the Revolutionary Government of France Under Marat and Robespier - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...by which we could hear of the melancholy fate of these victims was by seizure of their effects, without any inventory or order whatever. The following day, or the next day but one, Citizen Corbeau, who had been clerk to the before-mentioned states, came into our garret, threw himself into our arms, bade us farewell, and departed with an expression of hope that he should live in our remembrance. This man, well persuaded that his just defence would be all in vain, said to his judges, " I know that you have decided on my death; I am resigned to it, and have nothing to answer but to the Supreme Being, Who, more clearly than you can do, reads the feelings of my heart, and Who will avenge my fate, and the fate of all the innocent beings whose destruction you have plotted." A citizen, named Delettres, a land-surveyor of Arras, was summoned, a short time afterwards, on suspicion of having purchased a church on account of some emigrants. He first appeared at the district, and said to us on his return: " My friends, worthy patriots though you are, you have a traitor amongst you, who reveals all that you say, and who disguises it under the most odious and hypocritical features; from what he has declared to our enemies respecting me, I am about to be sacrificed. May you escape the snares of this perfidious wretch!" The next day he was taken away from amongst us, and suffered, as he had predicted, the penalty of death. Each day was marked by similar transfers from our prison, and the afternoon was looked for with deadly terror, until the hour usually fixed for the fatal visit was past. Sighing over the fate of those whom tyranny had chosen, we then breathed to each other the mournfully-pleasing truth--"There is yet another day's delay for us!" I...
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