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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...
...various places where the guillotine was erected were then described. The scaffold was first set up in the Place de Greve, whence it was transported to the Place de la Revolution, then to the Place du Carrousel, and again back to the Place de la Revolution. Later, in deference to the objections raised by the business men on the streets leading to the spot, it was moved to the east end of the city...
...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...
...Fifth avenue, shouting the class cry as it advanced. All the streets along the line of march were crowded with men, women and children waving handkerchiefs and joking with the jubilant sophomores. When the procession reached the college campus the effigy of Legendre was deposited upon the fatal scaffold, near which stood the sacrificial altar with its colored fires. As the students gathered around the scene of death the haruspex, Henry A. Bostwick, pronounced the doom of the victim in verse. The victim was this time represented by a goat, and he was allowed to choose between three fates-either...
District-Attorney Corkhill says that Guiteau will never appear in a court room again, and that his next appearance in public will be on the scaffold...