The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . happy release when he died, at ten years of age. Having started iu on their reign of terror, the Jacobinsfollowed it up. Just a fortnight after the queens deaththey arrested twenty-two Girondists, with Vergniaud attheir head, and held them for trial on a charge of were the flower of France, the wisest and purestmen of the Revolution. But they were accused by Robes-pierre of having conspired against the republic, and, ofcourse, they were convicted. When they left their
The story history of France from the reign of Clovis, 481 , to the signing of the armistice, November, 1918 . happy release when he died, at ten years of age. Having started iu on their reign of terror, the Jacobinsfollowed it up. Just a fortnight after the queens deaththey arrested twenty-two Girondists, with Vergniaud attheir head, and held them for trial on a charge of were the flower of France, the wisest and purestmen of the Revolution. But they were accused by Robes-pierre of having conspired against the republic, and, ofcourse, they were convicted. When they left their prisonin the morning, they promised their fellow prisoners to letthem know how they had fared. They kej^t their promiseby singing the verse of the Marseillaise hymn— AlloDS, enfans de la patrie,Le jour de gloire est arrive. (Come all ye sons of France,The day of glorys come at last.) That night they spent in cheerful conversation. Whenday dawned, Vergniaud took his watch, scratched his in-itials and the date on the case, and sent it to a young lady towhom he was tenderly attached, and whom he had intended. THE DAUPHIN IN THE TEMPLE to marry. They were borne in five carts to the they stepped on the platform, all, with one accord, sangthe Marseillaise. The chant grew feebler and feebler assinger after singer fell on the fatal plank. At last onlyVergniaud was left. With his last breath he sang— The day of glorys come at last. The Jacobins murdered women as willingly as sent to the guillotine Madame Roland, one of themost beautiful and gifted women of the day, but a Giron-dist. She died bravely, saying, O Liberty ! What crimes are committed in thy name!Then followed poor old Madame Dubarry, who strug-gled and fought with the executioner ; Madame Elizabeth,sister of Louis the Sixteenth, who died bravely ; and a hostof other women, many of whom were young and beauti-ful, and whose only fault was that their husbands, or theirbrothers, or their fathers had be
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