title: Beware Madame la Guillotine: Travel to the French Revolution  with Murderess Charlotte Corday
author:  Sarah Towle 
description: Late at night, Sarah Towle wonders if she had been in Charlottes shoes, would she have used the knife? She doesnt let this keep her up til dawn, however, as she has other stories to tell and more storyapps and interactive books to create. Her first title, Beware Madame la Guillotine, A Revolutionary Tour of Paris, received accolades as a bilingual storyapp and was the inspiration for the subsequent suite of interactive books by Time Traveler Tales. More Paris stories by Sarah are on their way. Sarah is represented by Erzsi Deak of Hen&ink Literary Studio. She is available for author visits in person or by Skype, writers workshops, speaking engagements, and presentations.
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  ##  Notes
  
  
  **_Charles Dickens_**
  
  
  1\. In _Charles Dickens: The Progress of a Radical_ (1937).
  
  
  2\. _The Scarlet Pimpernel_ was a romantic novel and play (1905), the first of
  several stories featuring the adventures during the French Revolution of the
  suave English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney, who rescued those destined for
  the guillotine. Their author, Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montagu Barstow,
  1865–1947), was born in Hungary.
  
  
  3\. Carmagnole was a worker’s jacket originating in Carmagnola, Piedmont. It
  became fashionable among French revolutionaries and was then used to describe
  a song and a wild dance. The first verse of the song pilloried “Madame
  Veto”—Queen Marie Antoinette—who was accused of influencing Louis XVI to
  exercise this right.
  
  
  4\. Samuel Smiles (1812–1904) was the author of a number of works of self-
  improvement; the best known is _Self-Help: with Illustrations of Conduct &
  Perseverance_ (1859). By far the most successful of many such books of its
  time, it and the 