Complex sentence: With a knife hidden by Jean-Marie Goujon, he stabbed himself repeatedly while on the staircase leading from the courtroom, and died--his last words are reported to have been "I die for the republic".
Split into simpler sentences: With a knife hidden by Jean-Marie Goujon, he stabbed himself repeatedly while on the staircase leading from the courtroom, and died. His last words are reported to have been "I die for the republic".