http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:06:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-11840 ExecutedToday.com » 1789: The murderers of the baker Francois Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:20:02 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-11840 [...] three months after the Bastille was stormed, France was merely pregnant with its coming Terrors. The Revolution was in its “moderate [...] [...] three months after the Bastille was stormed, France was merely pregnant with its coming Terrors. The Revolution was in its “moderate [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-6703 ExecutedToday.com » 1793: Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderess Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:39:19 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-6703 [...] had doomed the liberals who were her political fellow-travelers and opened the door to the very Terror she meant to avert. (And also that the gesture might have been better directed elsewhere, since [...] [...] had doomed the liberals who were her political fellow-travelers and opened the door to the very Terror she meant to avert. (And also that the gesture might have been better directed elsewhere, since [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-6696 ExecutedToday.com » 1864: Doctor Edmond-Désiré Couty de la Pommerais, poisoner Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:58:45 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-6696 [...] a body of soldiers stand guard upon it, as if they fear that it might grow thirsty and insatiate as in the days of its youth. The multitude press up again, reinforced every hour, and at last the pale day climbs over the [...] [...] a body of soldiers stand guard upon it, as if they fear that it might grow thirsty and insatiate as in the days of its youth. The multitude press up again, reinforced every hour, and at last the pale day climbs over the [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-5063 ExecutedToday.com » 1871: The Paris Commune falls Thu, 28 May 2009 05:06:06 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-5063 [...] Whatever the true death toll, it massively surpassed that of the much more eagerly commemorated Revolutionary Terror. [...] [...] Whatever the true death toll, it massively surpassed that of the much more eagerly commemorated Revolutionary Terror. [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-4296 ExecutedToday.com » 1795: Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville, Robespierre’s prosecutor Thu, 07 May 2009 05:23:27 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-4296 [...] … when the Terror ended, our good state’s attorney even signed off on the execution of Robespierre, with what must [...] [...] … when the Terror ended, our good state’s attorney even signed off on the execution of Robespierre, with what must [...]

]]> http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/07/22/themed-set-thermidor/#comment-3470 ExecutedToday.com » 1795: Unspecified Robespierrists Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:07:38 +0000 http://www.executedtoday.com/?p=332#comment-3470 [...] Meaning (though unnamed as such by Balzac), the phenomenally prolific Sanson. [...] [...] Meaning (though unnamed as such by Balzac), the phenomenally prolific Sanson. [...]

]]> 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 [...]

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