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Excerpt from Francisco De Goya
Murano ware, which are shattered to pieces in their rough hands. TO that motto of Vim la Joz'e has succeeded another - Vine la Mort! We see Marie Antoinette, once Queen Of France, her hair cut short, a coarse linen. Chemise about her body, dragged to the guillotine amid the savage howls Of the crowd; while - in one of these dramatic contrasts which only History her self can devise for us - among the spectators of this tragic execution of the Austrian Princess is a young Officer, who has come to Paris from a small garrison town with letters of introduction to Robespierre and Danton - Napoleon Buonaparte, the son of a Corsican lawyer, the last of the great Italian Condottieri.
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