There is a good description of the event if you hit the link.
They were guillotined on this date in 1794.
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries). They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as beatified martyrs of the Catholic Church. Ten days after their execution, Maximilien Robespierre himself was executed, ending the Reign of Terror.[b][1] Their story has inspired a novella, a motion picture, a television movie, and an opera, Dialogues of the Carmelites, written by French composer Francis Poulenc.
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A crowd gathered, as usual, at the Place du Trône Renversé (now called Place de la Nation),[a] the site of the executions, to watch, but the sisters showed no fear and forgave their guards. The final song the sisters sang was Psalm 116, Laudate Dominum.[a] Sister Constance, a novice, the youngest of the group and the first to die, "spontaneously"[19] began the chant, but it was cut short by the guillotine blade. Each sister joined her and was silenced in the same way.
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