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by the artist Charlotte Morin,
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reproduced in a widely read anarchist newspaper,
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portrayed Ravachol as a martyr, his defiant,
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heroic face set within the frame of the guillotine.
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Some sympathizers began to compare their martyr,
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Ravachol, to sort of a violent Jesus Christ.
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Both Christ and Ravachol were thirty-three when they were executed.
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And anarchists sang a song called La Ravachol,
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that is, The Song of Ravachol,
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to the tune of ?a Ira,
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a song from the French Revolution:
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"In the great city of Paris live the well-fed