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including:

49Death Sentences: Literature and State Killing
Edited by Birte Christ and Ève Morisi23 April 2019
Chapter 3 ‘Le Peuple Veut Du Sang’: the Guillotine and the General Will in Revolutionary Pamphlet Theatre
Jessica Goodman
doi:10.2307/j.ctv16km0wd.7