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Show Marie Antoinette's Death. Thiers thus describes her cruel death. She was led half dead to the terrible wicket. "Who are you?" asked the scarfed executioner. "Louise de Savoie, Princess de Lam-balle." Lam-balle." "Do you know what the palace plots are?" "I never knew of any plot." "Swear to love liberty; swear to hate the king, the queen and royalty." ! "I will swear the first, but not the last; U is not in my heart." "Come! swear!" said one of the assistants as-sistants to her, wishing to save her. But the unfortunate lady neither saw nor heard anything more. "Let madame be enlarged," called out the leader of the wicket. Here as at the Ablaque a word was Invented to serve as the signal of death. The unfortunate un-fortunate woman, who, say some narrators, narra-tors, was never intended to-be given up. was led forward. She was, however, how-ever, received at the door by some furious fu-rious one greedy for blood. A sabre cut at the back of the head let forth a stream of blood. She still advanced, supported by two men, who were perhaps per-haps desirous of saving her, but she fell a few paces further on under a second blow. Her beautiful person was torn to pieces. The assistants outraged it, mu tilated it, and divided Its fragments among themselves. Her head, her heart and other parts of her body placed on the end of a pike were paraded through Paris. We ought, said these men in their atrocious language, to carry them to the foot of the throne. They went to the temple and awoke with their frightful shouts the unfortunate prisoners, pris-oners, who asked in terror what was the matter. The municipal officer prevented prevent-ed them from seeing the horrible procession pro-cession which was passing under the window with her bleeding head at the end of a pike; but one of the national guard said to the queen, "It is the head of Lamballe that they wanf to hinder hin-der you from seeing." At these words the queen fainted. Madame Elizabeth, the king and the valet" de chambre, Clery, removed the unfortunate princess and the shouts of the ferocious band continued for a long time to resound about the walls of the temple. |