Farewells
Last words, last thoughts, last things.
Friday, November 12, 2010
He kept his head until the end
Jean Sylvain Bailly, mayor of Paris during the French Revolution, was executed by guillotine on this day in 1793. His last words, in response to a spectator who heckling him because he was trembling:
"Only from the cold, my friend."
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