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distraught at being unable to feed his family,
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tossed a small bomb filled with tacks, thumb tacks,
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into the Chamber of Deputies.
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His goal was not to kill
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there were several scratches on the deputies
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but to call attention to the plight of the poor
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whose situation seemed to be getting worse and worse.
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He was captured on the spot.
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The guillotine immediately,
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instantaneously, after a brief trial,
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severed his head as he defiantly shouted the obligatory,
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"Long live anarchy." eMile Henry's father,