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Show A REMARKABLE ESCAPE. During the reign of terror in Taris one of the most remarkable escapes was that of M. de Chateoubrun. He was sent to execution with twenty other prisoners, but after the fifteenth head had fallen the guilotine got out of order and a workman was sent for to repair it. The six remaining victims vic-tims were left standing in front of the machines with their hands tied behind them. A French crowd is very curious, cu-rious, and the people kept pressing forward to see the man arranging the guillotine. By degrees M. de Chateu-brun, Chateu-brun, who was to the rear of his companions, com-panions, found himself in the front line of the spectators, then in the second sec-ond and finally well behind those who had come to see his head cut off. Before Be-fore the men could get the guillotine In1 working order night began to fall, and M. de Chateaubrun slipped away. When in the Champs Elysees he told a man that a wag had tied his hands and robbed him of his hat, and this simple individual set him free. A few-days few-days later M. de Chateaubrun escaped from France. |