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September 6, 1797
Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
During the French Revolution, a peasant woman from d'Achicourt near Arras is executed by guillotine for a naive comment about victims heading to execution, while nursing her three-month-old infant.
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SAVAGE ANECDOTE.
From Mrs. Williams's Letters.
"A peasant of d'Achicourt, a village near Arras, came to sell butter in the town. As she walked along the streets, she met a cart filled with victims who were going to execution.—"Voilà," said this poor creature with naïveté, "voilà des gens qui meurent pour bien peu de chose!" She was instantly seized, and led to the tribunal of Lebon. During her trial she held in her arms her infant of three months old, whom she suckled. When she heard her sentence of death, "Quoi!" said she, "quoi, pour un mot que j'ai dit, vous allez séparer l'enfant d'avec la mère?"+ When he received the fatal stroke, the stream of maternal nourishment issued rapidly from her bosom, and, mingling with her blood, bathed her executioner."
* "Those people they die for very little"
+ "What! for one word I said, will you part the child and its mother?"
From Mrs. Williams's Letters.
"A peasant of d'Achicourt, a village near Arras, came to sell butter in the town. As she walked along the streets, she met a cart filled with victims who were going to execution.—"Voilà," said this poor creature with naïveté, "voilà des gens qui meurent pour bien peu de chose!" She was instantly seized, and led to the tribunal of Lebon. During her trial she held in her arms her infant of three months old, whom she suckled. When she heard her sentence of death, "Quoi!" said she, "quoi, pour un mot que j'ai dit, vous allez séparer l'enfant d'avec la mère?"+ When he received the fatal stroke, the stream of maternal nourishment issued rapidly from her bosom, and, mingling with her blood, bathed her executioner."
* "Those people they die for very little"
+ "What! for one word I said, will you part the child and its mother?"
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Tragedy
What themes does it cover?
Tragedy
Misfortune
What keywords are associated?
French Revolution
Guillotine Execution
Peasant Woman
Nursing Infant
Arras Tribunal
Lebon
What entities or persons were involved?
Peasant Woman
Infant
Lebon
Where did it happen?
D'achicourt Near Arras
Story Details
Key Persons
Peasant Woman
Infant
Lebon
Location
D'achicourt Near Arras
Story Details
A peasant woman selling butter in Arras makes a naive remark about guillotine victims, is arrested, tried before Lebon's tribunal while nursing her infant, sentenced to death, and executed, with her milk mingling with her blood.