Word: sumichrast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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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...
...Friday evening Professor de Sumichrast will give the third lecture, on "The Prisons," and next Wednesday the final lecture of the series, on "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine...
...LECTURE. Paris during the Reign of Terror. II. The Republican Festivals. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...