ROBESPIERRE TAKEN TO THE GUILLOTINE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3164, 19 August 1881, Page 4

ROBESPIERRE TAKEN TO THE GUILLOTINE.

As they went along, throngs crowded about t 1 cart to sre the fallen tyrant, mvl the £.'iidar>nes pointed him out with their swords. Tie was pursued by the howling mob, who had formerly yelled as fiercely at hie victims, and now charged him with the blood of them all. Troops of women who had danced at. the deaths of those that he hud sent to the scaffold, now danced the r",n , ":nr , nolc round the curt ns it p;issc:' ■ -"■"•»' the house of f'Juplaix, where he had lived. A woman, breaking from the crowd, ruß''f'l dose to him, exclaiming : ' Vfi.iHpre.r of all my kindred, your atrony fill/ n<f with transport! Descend to hell, pnr."iit'd by the curses of every mother in Fnm-e!' W ! 'L.n they reached the place of execution PoVi^-piVrr' , wns first, shown to the people, ami t'len 1.-tid down on the scaffold with the bloody nnd nearly dead bodies of his brother and 'enriot. The batch consisted of twentyone, and ftobespierre was executed last of all. When he wns raised np to be led to the guillotine, he presented a most ghastly figure—his skv-blun coat covered with blood nnd dirt, his stockings slipped down about his his face livid as death, and tied up in a handnee. The nwuf-ionor plucked the bamlatre nwny, and let the jaw fall. He gave a dreadful veil, and the next moment under the axe. Samson held up the hideous head to the peeple, who shouted with delight, and then went away singing. Hne poor man, as he gazed on that head, said i ' Yes, Bobespierre, you said true—there ie a God !'—Cassell'a Illustrated History of England.