Execution crowd: "Tu trembles, Bailly?" ("Do you tremble, Bailly?")

Bailly: "Oui, mais c'est seulement de froid" ("Yes, but it is only the cold.")

✒ #JeanSylvainBailly, French statesman, astronomer, and author, was guillotined #OTD 12 November 1793, during the Reign of Terror.
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