On July 17, 1794, a group of Carmelite sisters stand at the foot of the scaf-fold in the Place de la R volution. Convicted of the capital crime of being fanatics-anti-revolutionary, anti-libertarian fanatics-they have been con-demned to death and now confront the final, fearful steps to martyrdom. Before this ultimate moment, their community has been sifted like wheat: the youngest among them, the aristocratic Blanche de la Force,...
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