He was driven "in a cab to the place of execution and he followed it up in detail.

He could hear one of the children of thirteen, already bound to the board, but too small and having only the top of the head under the knife, ask the executioner, "Will it hurt me much ?" What the triangular blade fell upon may be imagined! Carrier saw this with his own eyes, and whilst the executioner, horrified at himself, died a few days after in consequence of what he had done, Carrier put another in his place, began again and continued operations.
***** [Footnote 3201: Thibaudeau: "Memoires," I., 47, 70 .-- Durand-Maillane, "Memoires," 183 .-- Vatel, "Charlotte Corday et les Girondins," II., 269.

Out of the seventy-six presidents of the convention eighteen were guillotined, eight deported, twenty-two declared outlaws, six incarcerated, three who committed suicide, and four who became insane, in all sixty-one.

All who served twice perished by a violent death.] [Footnote 3202: Moniteur, XVIII., 38.

(Speech by Amar, reporter, Oct.
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