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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Frontispiece. Illustrations (including fold-out at pages 10 and 139). 288 pages. Notes. No dust jacket present. The work consists of four Parts: I, La Force; II, The Abbaye; III The Carmelite Convent; and IV Statements by the Murderers. This includes the accounts of Weber, the foster brother of Marie Antoinette, Pauline de Tourzel, Marquise de Tourzel, Maton de la Varenne, Mehee de Latouche, Jourgniac de Saint-Meard, Abbe Berthelet de Barbot, Jerome Noel Vialar, Abbe Saurin, Stanilas Maillard, Mayeur, and Depree. Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin (7 October 1855, in Richemont, Moselle - 7 February 1935) was a French historian and playwright who wrote under the pen name G. Lenotre. He wrote articles in Le Figaro, Revue des deux mondes, Le Monde illustré and Le Temps. He also produced numerous works dealing with the French Revolution, especially the Reign of Terror, constructed from his research into primary documents of the era. His work was recognized and admired by his contemporaries. Gosselin was made an officer of the Légion d'honneur and in 1932 was elected to the Académie française. His works include: Paris Révolutionnaire, La Guillotine et les exécuteurs des arrêts criminels pendant la Révolution; Un conspirateur royaliste pendant la Terreur: le baron de Bats; Le Vrai Chevalier de Maison-Rouge; La Captivité et la mort de Marie-Antoinette; La Chouannerie normande au temps de l'Empire; Le Drame de Varennes; Les Massacres de Septembre; Les Fils de Philippe-Égalité pendant la Terreur; Bleus, Blancs et Rouges; Le Roi Louis XVII et l'énigme du Temple; La Proscription des Girondins. Written by journalist G. Lenôtre (Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin) and first published in 1907, the book tells of the summary executions of as many as 1,300 prisoners in Paris in September 1792 following the French Revolution. The English translation, by Thomas Carr, was commissioned by inventor Michael La Vean, whose collection of historical French documents is housed at George Mason University. The September Massacres were a series of killings and summary executions of prisoners in Paris that occurred in 1792, from Sunday, 2 September until Thursday, 6 September, during the French Revolution. Between 1,176 and 1,614 people were killed by sans-culottes, fédérés, and guardsmen, with the support of gendarmes responsible for guarding the tribunals and prisons, the Cordeliers, the Committee of Surveillance of the Commune, and the revolutionary sections of Paris. With Prussian and royalist armies advancing on Paris, and widespread fear that prisoners in the city would be freed to join them, on 1 September the Legislative Assembly called for volunteers to gather the next day on the Champs de Mars. On 2 September, around 1:00 p.m., Minister of Justice Georges Danton delivered a speech in the assembly, stating: "We ask that anyone refusing to give personal service or to furnish arms shall be punished with death. The bell we are about to ring. sounds the charge on the enemies of our country." The massacres began around 2:30 PM in the middle of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and within the first 20 hours more than 1,000 prisoners were killed. The next morning, the surveillance committees of the commune published a circular that called on provincial patriots to defend Paris by eliminating counter-revolutionaries, and the secretary, Jean-Lambert Tallien, called on other cities to follow suit. The massacres were repeated in a few other French cities; in total 65-75 incidents were reported. The exact number of victims is not known, as over 440 people had uncertain fates, including from 22 to 200 Swiss soldiers. The identity of the perpetrators, called "septembriseurs", is poorly documented, but a large number were Parisian national guards and provincial federates who had remained in the city since their arrival in July. 72% of those killed were non-political prisoners including forgers of assignats (galley convicts), common criminals, women, and children, while 17% were Cathol.