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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
“Singular Guillotin, respectable practitioner: doomed by a satiric destiny to the strangest immortal glory that ever kept obscure mortal from his resting-place, the bosom of oblivion”
The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book IV (States-General), Ch. IV, 'The Procession' (Project Gutenberg #1301)
Introducing the physician-deputy whose proposal for a painless beheading machine will give the Terror its name and instrument.
Citation: "Singular Guillotin, respectable practitioner: doomed by a satiric destiny to the strangest immortal glory that ever kept obscure mortal from his resting-place, the bosom of oblivion" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book IV (States-General), Ch. IV, 'The Procession' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q5)
