text:  Witness Picciola--witness those letters perhaps the most touching that were ever penned from poor Camille Desmoulins to his wife while waiting for the summons to the guillotine--witness above all that fragment signed Queret-Demery which could not get beyond the sullen walls of the Bastile until fifty years after the agonizing request was preferred when that torture-chamber of cruelty was razed indignantly to the ground--"If for my consolation Monseigneur would grant me for the sake of God and the most blessed Trinity that I could have news of my dear wife! were it only her name on a card to show that she is yet alive! It were the sweetest consolation I could receive; and I should for ever bless the greatness of Monseigneur