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3.31- The Man of Blood Part Deux

Revolutions

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Cordet's Assassination of Martyr Mora

Cordey swore up and down that no one had put her up to it. She was guillotined before a huge crowd on july seventeenth. But sadly, for cordet, her actions did not help bring about the end of jacobin tyranny. In many ways, she helped bolster their cause. Mora overnight became a revolutionary martyr. His funeral was carefully orchestrated to exalt him as a popular hero. When dechristianization really starts getting going, busts of mora would often replace crucifixes in co opted churches. Now interestingly enough, though, mora remains were not immediately transferred into the pantheon,. It was not until after the fall of rog

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