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Authentic Particulars Relative To The Death Of Robespierre.
The cart which contained the two Robespierres , Couthon , and Henriot , attracted all the attention of the spectators . It was to this cart that every eye was inclined and rivetted . The wretches , mutilated , disfigured , and covered with blood , resembled a banditti surprised in a wood , and whom their pursuers had not been able to seize without wounding them .
Robespierre was extremely pale , and had on the same coat which lie wore on the day on which he bad flared to proclaim in the field of Mars the existence of the Supreme Being . He cast down his eyes , and leaned his head upon his breast , so as to render extremely disgusting the foul bloody linen with which it was covered . Henriothaving nothing on but a shirt and waistcoatwas covered
, , all over with dirt and blood . His hair and hands imbrued with gore , and the eye which had been forced out of its socket , retained by the filaments " only , formed a sight so disgusting and horrible , that it was impossible to view it without shuddering . ' There he is 1 there he is ! ' exclaimed the populace , ' such as he was when he came out of St . Firman , after having cut the throats of the priests there !'
Young Robespierre ancl Couthon were in a similar way disfigured by contusions , and covered with blood . The ghastly appearance , which each of these wretches presented to the eyes of their fellowcitizens in the last moments of their lives , would appear to those the least relig ious as a punishment of Heaven . Indeed , these monsters , who , after having bathed themselves in blood , were completely
stained with it in descending to the grave , evinced in a striking manner , that Divine Justice exercised upon them its terrible vengeance ,-and wished to inspire extreme horror at their assassination . The cavalcade being arrived before the house where Robespierre resided , opposite the street commonly called St . Florentin , in that of St . Honore , the people obliged the executioners to stop . They obeyed ; and a group of women went through a dance in front of the cart in which Robespierre was placed . When the criminals had reached the middle of the street ,
heretofore entitled Rue Roya ) , which leads to the place of execution , a middle aged woman , neatly dressed , and indicating by her manners and countenance an education above the vulgar , pressed through the crowd , and , eagerly seizing with one hand the shaft of the cart in which Robespierre was seated , and menacing him with the other , exclaitned : ' Monster , vomited by Hell l thy punishment intoxicates me with joy ! I have but one regret ; it is that thou hast not a
thousand lives , that I might enjoy the pleasure of seeing them torn from thee one after another . Go , villain ! go down to the grave with the execrations of every wife , of every mother ¦ ' Robespierre had certainly deprived this woman either of a husband or a son . He turned his eyes janguishingly towards her , and , without saying a word , shrugged up bis shoulders . On the scaffold , Robespierre had a new suffering to undergo . The executioner , before he extended him on the board on which he was to suffer death , tore the dressings hastily from his wound , The
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Authentic Particulars Relative To The Death Of Robespierre.
The cart which contained the two Robespierres , Couthon , and Henriot , attracted all the attention of the spectators . It was to this cart that every eye was inclined and rivetted . The wretches , mutilated , disfigured , and covered with blood , resembled a banditti surprised in a wood , and whom their pursuers had not been able to seize without wounding them .
Robespierre was extremely pale , and had on the same coat which lie wore on the day on which he bad flared to proclaim in the field of Mars the existence of the Supreme Being . He cast down his eyes , and leaned his head upon his breast , so as to render extremely disgusting the foul bloody linen with which it was covered . Henriothaving nothing on but a shirt and waistcoatwas covered
, , all over with dirt and blood . His hair and hands imbrued with gore , and the eye which had been forced out of its socket , retained by the filaments " only , formed a sight so disgusting and horrible , that it was impossible to view it without shuddering . ' There he is 1 there he is ! ' exclaimed the populace , ' such as he was when he came out of St . Firman , after having cut the throats of the priests there !'
Young Robespierre ancl Couthon were in a similar way disfigured by contusions , and covered with blood . The ghastly appearance , which each of these wretches presented to the eyes of their fellowcitizens in the last moments of their lives , would appear to those the least relig ious as a punishment of Heaven . Indeed , these monsters , who , after having bathed themselves in blood , were completely
stained with it in descending to the grave , evinced in a striking manner , that Divine Justice exercised upon them its terrible vengeance ,-and wished to inspire extreme horror at their assassination . The cavalcade being arrived before the house where Robespierre resided , opposite the street commonly called St . Florentin , in that of St . Honore , the people obliged the executioners to stop . They obeyed ; and a group of women went through a dance in front of the cart in which Robespierre was placed . When the criminals had reached the middle of the street ,
heretofore entitled Rue Roya ) , which leads to the place of execution , a middle aged woman , neatly dressed , and indicating by her manners and countenance an education above the vulgar , pressed through the crowd , and , eagerly seizing with one hand the shaft of the cart in which Robespierre was seated , and menacing him with the other , exclaitned : ' Monster , vomited by Hell l thy punishment intoxicates me with joy ! I have but one regret ; it is that thou hast not a
thousand lives , that I might enjoy the pleasure of seeing them torn from thee one after another . Go , villain ! go down to the grave with the execrations of every wife , of every mother ¦ ' Robespierre had certainly deprived this woman either of a husband or a son . He turned his eyes janguishingly towards her , and , without saying a word , shrugged up bis shoulders . On the scaffold , Robespierre had a new suffering to undergo . The executioner , before he extended him on the board on which he was to suffer death , tore the dressings hastily from his wound , The