An elaborate picture, the scenes of which are laid in France during the contest between the classes and the masses; it tells the love story of a countess and a man of the people, ending in their journey to the guillotine together. As a vehicle for conveying the impression of intense human passion this picture has an interest which might not otherwise attach to it. This disturbance in France, which had such remarkable influence upon the world, is really little understood by the people of this country and episodes taken from it are somewhat blind in their allusions. Everyone can understand human passion, but the differences which exist between various classes of society as represented here are not always so plain. The staging is sumptuous and the acting reaches heights of dramatic power in places. - The Moving Picture World, April 15, 1911