Note 89 — Chapter XVII · OPERA IN FRANCE UNDER THE CONSULATE, EMPIRE, AND RESTORATION.
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He persisted in this declaration, in spite of his judges, who were not ashamed to resort to torture, in the hope of extracting a full confession from him. The thumb-screw and the rack were not, it is true, employed; but sentinels were stationed in the wretched man's cell, with orders not to allow him a moment's sleep, until he confessed.