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  • Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe, is led out through the gates of La Force prison to the street in Paris where she is killed by the Revolutionary mob. Wood engraving.
  • Gottfried Eisenmann. Lithograph by G. W. Faber.
  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • The murder of Maria-Theresa of Savoy-Carignan, Princess of Lamballe: French revolutionaries dragging her naked, headless, body along the streets of Paris with her head on a pike. Etching by T. Wallis after W.M. Craig, 1815.