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Let Them Eat Cake
Princess Elisabeth of France, captured sharing a moment of humor with her ladies in waiting. The Committee of Public Safety had, moments earlier, approved her capture and execution.
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Facing the End
Jean Gravier, the Marquis de Vergennes, stares out a window to the crowd below moments before the guards come in to usher him down to the guillotine in this photo from 24 July, 1794. In the short time of the Reign of Terror, 16,594 executions took place. This execution was one of many that took…