In his classic work of historical fiction, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens suggests that family members of those sentenced to death by the various tribunals were themselves targeted for execution, if for no other reason than kinship. Given the exaggeration, for dramatic ends, of certain abuses of the period, as depicted in this novel, I seek clarification concerning the degree to which the foregoing notion (i.e., that of effective extension of sentences to familial relations who themselves were unimpeachable according to the criteria ordinarily used to assess guilt) is supported (or refuted) by the historical record (preferably in numerical terms, supposing such data are available from the records of the condemned).