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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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came on. one could seemen and women, tied together, and bleed-ing from numerous wounds, marchedalong, urged forward by kicks and blowsfrom musket-butts into the Place \eu-d6me, where they were immediately shot.A number of French and Americanpersons (old me the following incident,which I defy any one to read without acertain emotion. On Thursday a verybeautiful young girl, taken in the act ofscattering inflammable matches againstthe houses, was marched down the Ruede la Pais to the Place Vendome toexecution. She seemed quite innocent,and answered quite quietly when askedwhat she was doing, and what she had inher apron, Only some kindlings to lightmy lire with. Her beauty, her elasticand courageous step, as she marched toexecution, did not enlist the women inher favor. The women were much moreterrible in their wrath than the men ; but.as she turned and faced the crowd withflashing eye, and as her long, black hair EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 489 H wB *0SO>->GO o g 50-H a SO SO oo SO
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490 EVROPE IX STORM AM> CALM. kepi waving in the breeze, many a strongman shed tears. An implacable war ofthe pcior against the rich, carried nowto the extremity of despair, made the3oung girl march as proudly to the placeof execution as if her cause had beenwon, and Paris were free. The military school on the Champ deMars was a favorite place for execu-tions. Few prisoners who wenl in therecame out alive. As fast as the men andwomen entered the doomed precinct, thetramp of a Bring platoon and the dis-charge of a number of muskets could lie heard. The bodies Were heaped upso thai new-cdiners had to climb overthem in order to stand at the fatal wall.The dead n ere dragged afterwards to theChamp de Mars into trenches. Themillions of visitors to the great Exhibi-tion of 1878 little thought, as theywalked on the beautiful green grass ofthe gardens of the Champ de Mars, ofslaughtered Communists buried below.Probably some one who had read WaltWhitmans eccentric verses might havethought,

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