07 Dec




















From the 29th of April to the 4th of May, 109 persons are guillotined in Paris, and many more in the departments. In the valley of Aost, 6000 French were killed by the peasants of Piedmont. Barrere announces the capture of a Spanish camp, with two hundred cannon, and two thousand men. All the farmers-general are accused in a mass, and sent to the revolutionary tribunals, The town of Sargio and Piedmontese camp taken by the French. 11. Seventy-one persons, among whom are 27 farmers-general, are guillotined. Madame Elizabeth, sister of the late King, is carried before the revolutionary tribunal and interrogated, " What is your name?" "Elizabeth "Philippine Marie Helene de France." "Your quality?" "Aunt of the King." These last words are scarcely pronounced, when the tribunal condemns her to death. 12. The next day she is conducted to the scaffold, with 25 persons who were guillotined in her presence; it being directed that she should suffer the last. She died at the age of thirty years, and left a character of unblemished purity. Decreed, that all aged and infirm priests be kept in houses belonging to the republic.

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