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CONTENTS.
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| Unceasing employment of the Guillotine | 77 |
| "Les tricoteuses" | 77 |
| The Procureur-Général's complaint | 78 |
| Chaumette and Gobel—the Goddess of Reason | 78 |
| Robespierre's policy | 79 |
| His acknowledgment of a Supreme Being | 79 |
| The Guillotine's removals | 79 |
| Execution of the Marquise de Feuquières | 80 |
| Number of victims at the Barrière du Trône | 81 |
| Creditable conduct of Sanson | 81 |
| Execution of Robespierre | 82 |
| The Guillotine in the Departments | 82 |
| Execution of Fouquier-Tinville | 83 |
| The Guillotine after the Restoration, and under Louis-Philippe | 84 |
| Appendix:— | |
| Note on Sanson and his family | 85 |
| Sanson's letter on the behaviour of the King at his execution | 87 |
