With the sounds of Christmas merriment still resounding from houses nearby a wealthy young aristocrat walked calmly to the guillotine at dawn, smoking a cigarette. He disdained the rough aid of the executioner’s assistance, and laid his lead in the stock. Georges Gauchet, the 20-year-old son on an aristocratic family, paid the penalty for the murder of a Paris jeweller.
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Southland Times, Issue 21658, 21 March 1932, Page 2
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