An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

An Episode During the Terror [translated for the New York Saturday Press]

Balzac, Honore de. "An Episode During the Terror [translated for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, May 26, 1860, 1, 4.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

Set during the French Revolution, a woman is followed by what she suspects is a spy. The man turns out to be a friend, who asks for a ceremony for the recently murdered King. It turns out that this man was actually an executioner, and he himself is caught and sentenced to death.