A list of 122 people who were executed from the 7th-9th of Messidor (June on the French Republican calendar), in the second year of the Revolution (1794). These people were buried in mass graves at the Picpus cemetery in Paris; the mass graves were marked and honored by a sanctuary, with the names, ages, date of execution, and profession of their victims inscribed on the chapel wall.
Author: Ian Hamilton Finlay.
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Picpus : 7-9 messidor, an II de la République by Ian Hamilton Finlay. Published by Wild Hawthorn Press in 1995. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.