King's Landing in France

Chapter 253 The Four Giants Reunited Without One

An Ning met Robespierre on the viewing platform.

He couldn't help frowning slightly, because Robespierre had changed his old green overcoat.

An Ning asked, "Maximilian, where is your green coat?"

Robespierre was thinking about something with his head down, but he raised his head when he heard An Ning's voice, as if he had just woken up from some nightmare: "Oh, you are here, Andy. That green coat is finally dead, There was a big cut, and I went to the National Assembly yesterday wearing a coat with a cut.

"St. Just pointed it out, and I didn't know that the coat that had been with me for so long was already like this. Then I took it to the tailor's shop, and the tailor said that it must be patched to fix it. Many councilors objected to me wearing patches. clothes, so I just bought a new coat and used my allowance.

"How is it, is it suitable?"

An Ning walked around Frost and commented: "It's quite suitable. But I haven't studied clothes. After all, I'm just a cobbler. I can help you look at your leather shoes."

Robespierre laughed, but immediately realized it was inappropriate, and scowled again.

An Ning curled her lips, and went straight to business: "The painting I asked David to draw has been completed, and it just happens to be announced at today's ceremony. In addition, Ludwig also composed a song to send him off. Let him play a solo."

Robespierre nodded: "Okay, I am the master of ceremonies of the ceremony, and I will arrange it."

"Is the speaker himself the master of ceremonies?"

"After all, that's our best friend, and Danton agreed to do it."

Just as he was talking, Danton came to Robespierre.

Danton: "The Big Four of the Jacobins, now there are only three left. Andy, I personally strongly advise you not to take dangerous actions on the battlefield. We can't afford to lose you in this situation. gone."

An Ning thought, don't worry, I'm driving the player body to reduce damage, only Sturgia's javelin can send me away with one shot.

Robespierre glanced at An Ning, and echoed, "Yes, you are the most dangerous of all of us. I don't want to see the news of your death in battle."

An Ning: "I'll be fine. After all, I'm a family man now, so naturally I won't be as desperate as before."

"What you said had better be true. I heard that you worked harder on the battlefield than before." Danton responded.

At this time, Saint-Just ran up to the viewing stand and said to Robespierre and Danton: "The ceremony is completely in place, let's start."

Robespierre nodded, and then made a gesture of invitation to An Ning: "Please take a seat, Your Excellency the Paris Security Commander."

An Ning patted Robespierre on the shoulder, and then led Christina to her place.

After the guests attending the ceremony took their seats, the ceremony began.

Robespierre delivered an impassioned speech on the podium: "... our friend of the people, Jean Paul Marat, who has been listening to the voice of the people, was assassinated by the despicable rebels in the most nasty way !
"They should be ashamed of their actions!

"We want to fight back against these dirty rebels in the most terrifying way! We want to make them feel utter terror!
"There is no mercy for them! They don't deserve mercy! All those who are enemies of the Republic will be completely destroyed!
"Today, let us use their deaths to honor the soul of that friend of the people!"

After speaking, Robespierre snapped his fingers.

"Here today, we will execute a series of heinous people!"

An Ning finally understood why there were so many guillotines.

Robespierre announced loudly: "The first is the chief villain of the Girondins! Jean-Marie Rolland!"

An Ning raised her eyebrows. This Roland An Ning is more familiar with his wife—it's not that An Ning had an affair with this lady, but that Mrs. Roland appeared in Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities", and the British still used her phrase Famous words to criticize the Revolution: Liberty, how many crimes have been false in your name.

Mr. Roland was escorted to the guillotine by soldiers.

On the viewing stand, An Ning can clearly see how the executioners operate the guillotine. The guillotine has a vertical plate. The executioners tie the victim to the plate, and then they can directly put the plate down, and the victim becomes prone position.

After the knife is dropped from the high rack, the head will roll into the frame, and the body can be thrown into the containment box by untying the rope, and the board can be erected again.

An Ning knew that the guillotine was an efficient execution tool, but he didn't expect it to be so efficient.

Mr. Roland was tied up for a while, and then his body and head were separated, and there was a lot of bright red on the drawn switch knife.

In front of such an efficient execution machine, there is no chance to say his last words.

Robespierre continued to perform his duties as master of ceremonies: "The next one, also the villain of the Girondists, is Roland's wife who just died, Mary Jane Roland!"

Madame Roland was brought up at once, and executed with as much efficiency as her husband.

An Ning did not hear the famous saying: Freedom, how many crimes are in your name.

At least in this time and space, that sentence should have been fabricated by later generations.

The ensuing execution lasted a long time.

Christina closed her eyes directly, and leaned on An Ning to hold back the vomiting with difficulty.

But the onlookers were very crazy, shouting "execute them" all the time.

After the execution was finally over, An Ning no longer had the energy to pay attention to Robespierre's introduction of David's paintings and Beethoven's compositions to everyone.

It stands to reason that An Ning is used to seeing death on the battlefield, but today he discovered that death on the battlefield is far more merciful than the guillotine.

At least most people on the battlefield will have whole bodies.

The guillotine cuts off people as if they were objects, and the executioners who operate the guillotine probably have long since become numb to these, and don't feel that they are executing a living person at all.

The onlookers will also be numb, maybe they will do some work like a steamed bun of human blood.

It wasn't until Beethoven's flute sounded that An Ning regained his composure.

He looked up at the sky, and he always felt that he saw many innocent souls ascending to heaven to the sound of the flute.

After the ceremony was over, An Ning followed Mara's coffin to the Pantheon, and refused to leave with Danton and Robespierre on the grounds that she was unwell.

At Christina's suggestion, An Ning and his father-in-law, Mr. Equality, who also participated in the ceremony, returned to the Royal Palace together.

As soon as he entered the palace gate of the Royal Palace, Mr. Equality said: "You have seen it, this is what is happening in Paris now. The guillotine, that machine is trampling on human dignity with very high efficiency."

An Ning took a deep breath, and then said to Mr. Equality: "I suggest you leave Paris as soon as possible."

Mr. Equality: "Like Talleyrand and Fouché? Well, maybe they'd be smart to do that. Well, you've already suggested me so, and I don't need to be deadlocked. I'm going to apply for a As a commissioner, go to the countryside."

An Ning: "Remember to take Lavoisier with them."

"I will, my dear son-in-law."

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