What would Boniface de La Mole have said if, raising his severed head from the tomb, he had seen, in 1793, seventeen of his descendants allow themselves to be penned like sheep, to be guillotined a day or two later?
Qu’aurait dit Boniface de La Mole, si, levant hors de la tombe sa tête coupée, il eût vu, en 1793, dix-sept de ses descendants se laisser prendre comme des moutons, pour être guillotinés deux jours après ?