This day Miss Berenice Hill was executed
In accordance with the sentence pronounced against him by the royal court
In the morning the condemned woman was informed of her execution by the governor of the fortress upon hearing the court's sentence. At noon she was dressed in the dress of the tortured and delivered to La Bourelle
Who proceeded to prepare him with the guillotine by tying his wrists and arms and cutting his hair to free his neck.
Led to the scaffold erected in the courtyard of the fortress, the condemned woman was strapped as required to the plank of the guillotine which tipped over and her neck inserted into the lunette.
At 1:12 p.m. the executioner triggered the fall of the blade separating the head from the body of the condemned Berenice Hill