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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"

3, ch. 6, ante.
[153] Chateaubriand: "G?nie du Christianisme," part 4, book II., notes
on the exhumations at St. Denis taken by a monk, an eye-witness.
Destruction, August 6 and 8, 1793, of fifty-one monuments. Exhumation
of bodies, October 12 and 25, 1793. - Camille Boursier, "Essai sur la
Terreur en Anjou," p.223. (Testimony of Bordier-Langlois.) "I saw the
head of our good Duke R?n?, deposited in the chapel of St. Bernardin,
in the Cord?liers at Angers, tossed like a ball by some laborers from
one to the other."
[154] R. Chantelauze, "Louis XVII.," (according to unpublished
documents). This book, free of declamation and composed according to
the critical method, sets this question at rest.
[155] Wallon, "Histoire du Tribunal Revolutionnaire," III., 285. -
Campardon, "Hist. du Tribunal R?volutionnaire de Paris," I., 306.
Brochet, one of the jury, was formerly a lackey.
[156] The above simply conveys the sense of the document, which is
here given in the original: "Si tu n'est pas toute seulle et que le
compagnion soit a travailier tu peus ma chaire amie venir voir juger
24 mesieurs tous si-deven pr?sident on conselier au parlement de Paris
et de Toulouse.


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