The Deaths of the Revolutionary Revolutionaries

Gustave colbert, who had brought down the vendome column, was only given six months in prison. But then they billed him for the enormous cost of erecting the column and that forced him to flee into exile or switzerland. I think, as a result of these trials, you can probably add another ten to 15 thousand deaths. So that's going to bring the dead up to somewhere between 20 and 25 thousand total. This is a huge number. It's at least double, if not triple, the number killed during the june day's uprising in 18 forty eight. And frankly, a lot of those deaths had been in the heat of battle, whereas this was a