GIRONDISTS ON THE WAY TO THE GUILLOTINE.—The early 1900s caption reads: “The famous artist Piloty has here presented to us all the mingled pathos and tragedy of the French Revolution. The Girondists or moderate Republicans were the true heroes of the movement; but they were accused by their anarchistic rivals of being traitors to France, and all their leaders were executed. We see the heroes driven through the streets of Paris (to the awful guillotine which looms in the distance. The rabble hoot at them; the old women by the wayside laugh and jeer, but with calm, high faces the Girondists pass
GIRONDISTS ON THE WAY TO THE GUILLOTINE.—The early 1900s caption reads: “The famous artist Piloty has here presented to us all the mingled pathos and tragedy of the French Revolution. The Girondists or moderate Republicans were the true heroes of the movement; but they were accused by their anarchistic rivals of being traitors to France, and all their leaders were executed. We see the heroes driven through the streets of Paris (to the awful guillotine which looms in the distance. The rabble hoot at them; the old women by the wayside laugh and jeer, but with calm, high faces the Girondists pass on to die for Liberty.” The Reign of Terror, supported by the Jacobins, was a period of the French Revolution (1793-1794) when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervor, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety
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