Le Dernier Jour d'un condamné

THE GRAND TEXTS OF THE 19TH HEADING "Six more hours and I will be dead. Is it true that I will be dead before the end of the day?" Soon his head will roll into the sawdust. Juged, imprisoned, chained, he waits in fear. "I am afraid" – and our fear grows with his. The chaplain will come, then the helpers of the executioner. He will go up into the cart, cross the hideous crowd. At the end of the march to the torture, the appearance of the guillotine. It is said that we do not suffer, that it is a sweet end, but who knows it? With him, we live this nightmare, this horrifying absurdity of the capital punishment that no one had thought of before Victor Hugo. @ Available at 12-21 THE NUMERIC EDITOR