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10th of August 9th Thermidor Abbé adopted Agasse allusion appear April block blood blow called capital punishment CHARLES HENRY SANSON Charles Sanson Charlotte Corday Clermont Tonnère condemned Convention Corday crime criminal cution Dangremont Danton debate decollation decree Department of Paris doubt Durosoi écuelle executioner favour Fouquier France Gorsas Guillotin Guyot Halifax gibbet hanged hatchet horrors humanity instru instrument inventor Jacobin journal justice kind King La Chèze law of France Legislative Assembly letter livres Louis Louis's report machine Madame Roland massacres ment MODE OF BEHEADING mode of decapitation mode of execution Moniteur murders National Assembly neck Pâris Parliament of Paris patient Pelletier Peltier Pennant persons Place de Grève popular prison Procureur-Général proposition Prudhomme punishment of death Ræderer Randle Holme's remarkable Rendez-moi representation Revolution revolutionary Robespierre Royalist scaffold Schmidt seems sever the head suffered sword tion trial Tribunal Versailles victims