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Professor Sumichrast will give the fourth and last of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror," this evening at 8 o'clock, in the Fogg Lecture Room. The subject will be "The Peregrinations of the Guillotine." The lecturer will speak of the origin of the guillotine, the various sites upon which it was erected, the method of execution, and the sites of the various burial grounds which were set apart for the victims...
Professor Sumichrast gave last evening, in the Fogg Lecture Room, the third of his series of lectures on "Paris during the Reign of Terror." The subject was "The Prisons." The early years of the Revolutionary government, said Professor Sumichrast, were marked by that tyranny and cruelty which is almost invariably exercised by a weak government as the only means of maintaining its power. The prisons and the scaffold were used by the authorities to protect themselves from the people...
...last lecture of the series will be given next Wednesday, and will treat of the Guillotine and the various places in Paris where it was set up during the Reign of Terror...
...LECTURE. Paris during the Reign of Terror. IV. The Peregrinations of the Guillotine. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
...LECTURE. Paris during the Reign of Terror. III. The Prisons. (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor de Sumichrast. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...