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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. 26 May 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.