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[FRENCH REVOLUTION]. Columbian Centinel. Vol. XIX, No. 5. Boston: Benjamin Russell, March 27, 1793. Four folio pages on one large folded sheet. Approximately 478 x 304 mm. Toned, soiled, some light chipping to left margin indicating this was excised from a book, one horizontal crease. With articles of the trial and execution of French King Louis XVI: “The post brought this day a certainty of the execution of the King of France, on the 21st of January last, between ten and eleven o’clock of the day. It is said he supported himself with great courage on the occasion, mounted the scaffold with great deliberation, and attempted to make a speech, which tended to prove his innocence. - However, the troops were ordered immediately to beat their drums and sound their trumpets, in order to prevent his being heard; which he perceived, made a bow to all around him, and laid his head upon the block, and it was immediately severed from his body.”