http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:45:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-2198 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Olympe de Gouges, a head of her time Mon, 03 Nov 2008 06:01:29 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-2198 [...] the natural-born gadfly didn’t pick her battles with injustice, and the Terror was a bad period to be indiscriminate. Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris [...] [...] the natural-born gadfly didn’t pick her battles with injustice, and the Terror was a bad period to be indiscriminate. Like some of her Girondist associates, she risked the Paris [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-2151 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: The Girondists Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:17:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-2151 [...] As the terrible year of 1793 unfolded, the Girondins discovered themselves successively overthrown, expelled from the Convention, proscribed, and hunted. Though many more — Girondists and others — were to follow in their steps, the trial of these 21 before the Revolutionary Tribunal and subsequent guillotining, the first notable mass-execution of the Revolution, raised the curtain on the Terror. [...] [...] As the terrible year of 1793 unfolded, the Girondins discovered themselves successively overthrown, expelled from the Convention, proscribed, and hunted. Though many more — Girondists and others — were to follow in their steps, the trial of these 21 before the Revolutionary Tribunal and subsequent guillotining, the first notable mass-execution of the Revolution, raised the curtain on the Terror. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-1954 ExecutedToday.com » Seven Generic Halloween Costumes You Can Spice Up With an Execution Story Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:03:54 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-1954 [...] Brit Jack Ketch, prolific French Revolution headsman Sanson, U.S. President Grover Cleveland and (helpfully, for Halloween) flamboyantly costumed Italian [...] [...] Brit Jack Ketch, prolific French Revolution headsman Sanson, U.S. President Grover Cleveland and (helpfully, for Halloween) flamboyantly costumed Italian [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-1815 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Marie Antoinette Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:36:32 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-1815 [...] wanton, senseless … her death was all of these, but then many others in the Terror suffered the same, as many others had under the [...] [...] wanton, senseless … her death was all of these, but then many others in the Terror suffered the same, as many others had under the [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-1812 ExecutedToday.com » 1794: Three generations of Noailles women, but not the Marquise de Lafayette Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:23:30 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-1812 [...] Themed Set: Thermidor 1794: Alexandre de Beauharnais, widowing Josephine for Napoleon [...] [...] Themed Set: Thermidor 1794: Alexandre de Beauharnais, widowing Josephine for Napoleon [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-1725 1793: Sydney Carton Posing as Charles Darnay « Sydney Carton Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:29:51 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-1725 [...] “The Terror” is usually dated from September 1793 through July 1794, but only during its bloodiest last two months would so many as 52 have been guillotined together; at the time of Carton’s execution, half as [...] [...] “The Terror” is usually dated from September 1793 through July 1794, but only during its bloodiest last two months would so many as 52 have been guillotined together; at the time of Carton’s execution, half as [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-1676 ExecutedToday.com » 1977: Hamida Djandoubi, Madame Guillotine’s last kiss Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:54:38 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-1676 [...] famous and infamous blade dropped for the last time at Les Baumettes prison in Marseilles on Hamida Djandoubi, a [...] [...] famous and infamous blade dropped for the last time at Les Baumettes prison in Marseilles on Hamida Djandoubi, a [...]

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