Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lecturer gave a detailed account of the manner of preparing the condemned for the scaffold, from the moment when they had heard their death sentence in the hall where sat the Revolutionary Tribunal up to the time when the victims were made to ascend the cart waiting at the gate of the Conciergerie. The itinerary followed by these carts on their way to the scaffold can readily be traced along the existing streets of the French metropolis...