Paris in 1789-94; Farewell Letters of Victims of the Guillotine
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Conciergerie, 31^ October 1793, or \Qth day of the 2nd month of the second year of the Republic. My very dear father, receive the last embraces of an affectionate ^on, who has constantly honoured your rare virtues and has loved you every moment of his life. It is in the presence of death, which in a few hours will cut off the remainder of a life entirely devoted to professing the sentiments of an honest man, that I declare I carry away with me a pure heart, a conscience without reproach. Tell t...his to my children. Tell them of my love for them. Teach them to be devoted to the country and to love liberty, the only blessing to which a Frenchman can aspire. I commend them to your paternal good- will and kindness. I press in my arms my affectionate mother, all the family, and all my friends. Having discharged this duty, so dear to my heart, I go to death with the calmness and serenity which PRISON DOCUMENTS 397 crime would never have possessed. My memory will not be sullied. It is impossible for men to deprive me of it.
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