Altas Obsucura has an article on the Pipcus cemetary in Paris:
an estimated 16,000-40,000 "enemies of the revolution". Guillotines were set up in major plazas, hosting as many as 55 executions in a day.
(at) The convent of the Chanoinesses de St-Augustin the garden was dug up to accommodate mass graves for approximately 1300 men and women. Among the dead buried at the cemetery are sixteen Carmelite nuns known as the "Martyrs of Compiegne" who famously proceeded to their death singing hymns and were beatified by the Catholic church in 1906. Their story is memorialized books as well as in the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, which includes the sound of the dropping guillotine blade in the score.
Youtube has this video of the end of the opera:
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