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"If your life has ever known one act of self-sacrifice, bear, for your consolation, its memory to the scaffold. "
With a stiff smile on his lips, and those words of the President of the reconstituted Court in his ears, Antoine Quentin Fouquier de Tinville, late Public Prosecutor to the Revolutionary Tribunal, turned to follow his guard.