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... Soldiers and police- men were standing around the bookbinder's house . The good man manifested more satisfaction than surprise at this military display . He observed to his companion that if his house had been as well guarded on the ...
... Soldiers and police- men were standing around the bookbinder's house . The good man manifested more satisfaction than surprise at this military display . He observed to his companion that if his house had been as well guarded on the ...
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... soldier consented and acted as a spy . M. le Blanc , Secretary of State for War , who conducted the whole affair , took with him forty picked soldiers and a number of policemen , who had orders to take Cartouche dead or alive ; that is ...
... soldier consented and acted as a spy . M. le Blanc , Secretary of State for War , who conducted the whole affair , took with him forty picked soldiers and a number of policemen , who had orders to take Cartouche dead or alive ; that is ...
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... soldier , he returned to Paris in 1715. His biographers say that peace cast him penniless on the King's pavement . It appears to me more probable that he deserted the ranks . What is quite accurate is the tradition which attributes to ...
... soldier , he returned to Paris in 1715. His biographers say that peace cast him penniless on the King's pavement . It appears to me more probable that he deserted the ranks . What is quite accurate is the tradition which attributes to ...
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... soldiers in the court had seen the noble stranger's people carelessly leaning against the open window ; the table being at a short distance from the window , it was probable that while the counterfeit Englishman was engaging the chief ...
... soldiers in the court had seen the noble stranger's people carelessly leaning against the open window ; the table being at a short distance from the window , it was probable that while the counterfeit Englishman was engaging the chief ...
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... soldier when he was only a child . At twelve years of age he held a com- mission in Dillon's Irish regiment , and he took part in the siege of Barcelona . He promptly obtained the command of a regiment , which took his name in 1740 ...
... soldier when he was only a child . At twelve years of age he held a com- mission in Dillon's Irish regiment , and he took part in the siege of Barcelona . He promptly obtained the command of a regiment , which took his name in 1740 ...
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Memoirs of the Sansons: From Private Notes and Documents (1688-1847) Henri Sanson,Charles Henri Sanson Visualização de excertos - 1876 |
MEMOIRS OF THE SANSONS FROM PR Charles Henri B. 1739 Sanson,Henri 1767-1840 Sanson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
MEMOIRS OF THE SANSONS FROM PR, Volume 2 Charles Henri B. 1739 Sanson,Henri 1767-1840 Sanson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Abbé accomplices ancestor answered appeared arrested asked Assembly assistants Bailly became blood Camille Camille Desmoulins Cartouche Charles Henri Sanson Charles Jean-Baptiste Charles Sanson Charlotte Corday Citizen Conciergerie Convention convicts court Créqy cried crime criminal lieutenant crowd culprit Damiens Danton death deputy Desmoulins Duke exclaimed execution executioner executioner's father favour Favras fear Fouquier France François friends Frimaire gave gendarmes Girondins Gorsas grandfather guillotine hands head heard Hébert honour inflicted Jacques Jean Jean-Baptiste Sanson Jeanne Jouanne justice King knife Lally Lesurques livres Longval looked Louis Louis XVI Madame magistrate Marie Antoinette Marquis Marquis de Favras Mdme Motte murder Nivôse o'clock Paris Parliament Pierre Place de Grève poor priest prisoners profession punishment Queen Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre scaffold sent sentence soldiers speak suffered taken tion Tiquet to-day told took torture trial turned Ventôse victim wife wished words young
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