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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. Its principal buildings and churches were destroyed, and the Jacobinarmy opened an indiscriminate cannon fire on the defenceless citizens, killing acouple of thousand or more. The other rebellious cities surrendered in a panic.Toulon was recaptured from the English (December, 1793), having been skil-fully made untenable to the foe by a young artillery officer, whose name Francenow heard for the first time. It was Napoleon Bonaparte. But these days of Jacobin triumph were days of horror in the capital. Theawful Reign of Terror had begun. After the proscription of the Girondists(June, 1793^ no mans life was safe. The successful party were determinedthat no tenderness of heart should rob them of their victory. The official sys-tem of execution adopted was the guillotine, a machine that at a single strokesevered the head from the body. Every day this insatiate monster was fedwith victims of both sexes. Men became brutalized with much slaughter. They lost all conception of Illilllllllllf
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France—The Reign of Terror 91 3 the mystery and sacredness of human life. The suspicion and fears of theJacobins seemed ever on the increase, and toward the last the mere fact ofbeing an aristocrat was often sufficient to bring condemnation. The vic-tims were executed in batches, twenty or thirty a day. The Paris mob attendedthe performance, as the old Romans did the massacres in the arena. Theycame early to secure good seats, the women knitted between acts, the spec-tators criticised the manner of each aristocrat in meeting death, and shoutedto the executioner to hold up the gory heads for them to admire. Three terrible men led the Jacobin counsels: Danton, the Minister ofJustice, who had directed the first September Massacres; Marat, the realleader of the mob, editor of an incredibly ferocious paper, called The PeoplesFriend; and Maximilian Robespierre, a lawyer, an enthusiastic dreamer,whose incoherent fury against the upper classes had excited only the laughterof the earlier Ass

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