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A "blood List."

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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An interestinjr but uncanny relie of the French revolution was üiscovered the other day among1 the papers of an autograph ooi lector in Berlin. It was celled the "blood list" and contains the name, standing1 and age of those persons put to de.ith in Paris between March, 1TU3, and June 23, 1794. There were 1,514 in all. On the margin of the pages opposite each name are a few remarks ff i ving the reasons for the deatli of, the particular person and a few of hls or her oharacteristics. Here folio tv some of the pastages frora tlia "blool list," which was afterv;i-l publishad in the Almanacii de Kevolution: April 9 - Catijarine Clerc, servant; because sh? wííhed a kin. April 28.- Mungol, a cab driver, 24 years oíd; he had said in a cafe that the nation eonsUted of a lot of ragpickers, crimináis, and thieves; it was necessary tu have a king1. Dec. 2 - Suder, a shoemaker from London, 53 years old; tecause of his bad shoeü. Dec. 9 - Venclenyver of Amsterdam, banker; crime of himself and son - riches. Jan. 1 - Vauchempute, clergyman, S9 years oíd; he had preserved in his room some biood of Louis XVI. Jan. 2- Custine, the son, a noble young man, 35 years, who was minister plenipotentiary in Berlín in 1791, where every one loved him. April 13- Arthur Dillon, general of división, 43 years old, yas known as "the beautiful Artbur," and was formerly a favorite of ths court. Dea -Caroline Adam, widow Gravand, from Berlin. On the Hst, who were, however, missed, ar also a "young actrice of the Italian theater, Grandmaison Bursette, &nd her 13-year-old jockey. Bouchard;" ninety-niae clerg'ymen, two of whoivi are over 79 years old; 192 officers; l.:i women, "of all ranks and stations," and thirty-two writer.

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