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Professor Sumichrast gave last evening, in the Fogg Lecture Room, the third of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror." The subject was "The Prisons." The early years of the Revolutionary government, said Professor Sumichrast, were marked by that tyranny and cruelty which is almost invariably exercised by a weak government as the only means of maintaining its power. The prisons and the scaffold were used by the authorities to protect themselves from the people...
Professor Sumichrast will give this evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, the third of his series of lectures, illustrated by the stereopticon, on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," the subject for tonight being "The Prisons." During the Reign of Terror the Revolutionary authorities increased the number of prisons in Paris from two to over forty. The lecturer will describe the chief of these, including the Temple, which became the abode of the royal family after it had been handed over by the Assembly to the Commune...
...LECTURE. Paris during the Reign of Terror. III. The Prisons. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
Professor F. C. de Sumichrast of the French department, delivered last evening in the Fogg Lecture Room the second of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," the subject being "The Republican Festivals." As a cause for these festivals, Professor Sumichrast stated that during the Reign of Terror and even before it the Parisians were for the most part in a starving condition, and longed for the festivities of the monarchical regime which had always been occasions of rejoicing and feasting. The Revolutionary authorities felt the need of preventing comparisons unfavorable to the new system...
...whole, these festivals were among the most effective, from a spectacular point of view, that Paris had ever beheld, and they proved once more that in the matter of fetes not even the horrors of the Reign of Terror could quench the French love of excitement and display...