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Introduction

Published in Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks • Jan 1, 1997
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Authors:
Ian Birchall

Abstract

On 26 May 1797, after a trial at Vendôme lasting three months, Gracchus Babeuf and his comrade Augustin Darthé were sentenced to death. They immediately stabbed themselves with improvised daggers made of sharpened brass wire;3 they failed to kill themselves and were patched up for execution. The nex...

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