Note 424 — Front matter (continued 11)
Reading edition
Prudhomme, a Republican, who wrote during this period of excitement, has left six volumes of the details of the Reign of Terror. Two of these contain an alphabetical list of all the persons put to death by the Revolutionary Tribunals. He gives the following appalling statement of the victims:
Nobles 1,278
Noble women 750
Wives of laborers and artisans 1,467
Nuns 350
Priests 1,135
Men not noble 13,623
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Total sent to the guillotine 18,603 18,603
Women who died of premature delivery 3,400
Women who died in childbirth from grief 348
Women killed in La Vendée 15,000
Children killed in La Vendée 22,000
Men slain in La Vendée 900,000
Victims under Carrier at Nantes 32,000
Victims at Lyons 31,000
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Total 1,022,351
This list, appalling as it is, does not include those massacred in the prisons, or those shot at Toulon or Marseilles.