1794/06/29
Juan Cortada & José de Manjarrés with Josefina Roma (1848). El libro verde de Barcelona. Añalejo de costumbres populares, fiestas religiosas y profanas, usos familiares, efemérides de los sucesos mas notables acaecidos en Barcelona. Barcelona: Sauri. [Private collection: GBS OCR too poor to use.] [more]
Word having spread that the French prisoners quartered in the old convent [?] of St Augustine wanted to plant the tree of liberty on the esplanade of the citadel, the populace rose against them and, in spite of the efforts of the authorities, all 128 of the inmates were killed.
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