Crossword-Solution: BALS 4 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Everywhere feasts, banquets, and balls, were organized; and it was an ordinary event to find in the same company the accuser and the accused, the executioner and his victim, the murderer near the daughter of the man whose head he had given over to the guillotine! This was especially the case at the so-called victim balls (bals a la victime) which were given by the heirs, the sons and fathers of those who had perished by the guillotine.

Every one who could pay the large fee of admission to these bals a la victime were permitted to enter.

Josephine never took part in these public balls and festivities; never did the widow of General Beauharnais, one of the victims of the revolution, attend these bals a la victime, where man prided himself on his misfortune and gloried in his sorrows.

The royalists, who had cunningly frequented these bals a la victime, to weave intrigues and conspiracies, found their webs scattered, and the republic assumed a new form.

Revenu en Bretagne au mois de novembre, il avait assisté à plusieurs mariages de ses amis, comme garçon d’honneur, tout le temps dans ses beaux habits de fête, et souvent ivre après minuit, sur la fin des bals.