" Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place Louis Quinze- Place de la Revolution now-where daily crowds gather, the vendors selling lemonade, the children playing prisoner's base, the old ladies gossiping as the heads fall. "

― Sandra Gulland , The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. (Josephine Bonaparte, #1)