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"The girl is just a simpleton, she couldn't have tricked us!" At his command the men marched down to encounter unexpectedly a company of national gendarmes that had been hurriedly summoned to the scene of the disturbance. In the porch melee Danton's side had been painfully slashed. Despite the pain, he recognized his little preserver and thanked her.
His portrait by Louis Boulanger, which was painted during the year of 1835, had been ordered rather with a view to advertizing him at the ensuing Salon, although he asserted it was because he wanted to correct a false impression given of him by Danton's caricature in the earlier months of the year.
Apart from this one success, everything had been going ill with Danton's measures, and the Robespierrists were making corresponding headway. On the 10th of July the Committee of Public Safety was reconstituted, and Danton was not re-elected. Couthon and St.
They comprised everything that suspicion could interpret malignantly, from the most conspicuous acts of Danton's public life, down to the casual freedom of private discourse. Another infamy was to follow.
Poor boy! poor, unfortunate boy! If Kate and I were to desert him, he would be lost indeed." "This is all Greek to me," said Stanford, coldly. "If the man be what you say, a murderer, nothing can excuse Miss Danton's conduct." "Listen, Reginald, my dear boy almost my son; listen, and you will have nothing but pity for the poor man upstairs, and deeper love for my noble daughter.
The multitude caught by Danton's tensely dramatic announcement applauds, even as it had jeered and mocked a few moments since. But the girl, kept from falling by his protective left arm, still gazes upon him idiotically. She had died, was it not true ? How then, she lives? What are these crowds, and who is this stranger? The gallant rescuer fears that her reason is gone! "Release that boy!"
Nor, to the vulgar eye, does there seem much poetry in the French Revolution, though it was the mightiest tide of human passion which ever boiled and raved: a great deal, doubtless, in Burke's "Reflections" but none in the cry of a liberated people, which was heard in heaven none in the fall of the Bastile none in Danton's giant figure, nor in Charlotte Corday's homicide nor in Madame Roland's scaffold speeches, immortal though they be as the stars of heaven nor in the wild song of the six hundred Marseillese, marching northward "to die."
Danton's first and relatively benign revolutionary tribunal, established in March, 1793, was reorganized by the Committee of Public Safety in the following autumn, by a series of decrees of which the most celebrated is that of September 17, touching suspected persons. By these decrees the tribunal was enlarged so that, in the words of Danton, every day an aristocratic head might fall.
Consequently, the following morning, August 11, on the opening of the session, it simply declares that "its mission is fulfilled:" on the motion of Lacroix, a confederate of Danton's, it passes a law that a new census of the population and of electors shall be made with as little delay as possible, in order to convoke the primary assemblies at once; it welcomes with joy the delegates who bring to it the Constitutional Ark; the entire Assembly rises in the presence of this sacred receptacle, and allows the delegates to exhort it and instruct it concerning its duties.
Just as Danton's loud voice, large gesture and occasional violence tend to produce a portrait of him which ignores the lucidity of his mind and the practicality of his instincts, making him a mere chaotic demagogue, so the "Old Hickory" legend makes Jackson too much the peppery old soldier and ignores his sagacity, which was in essential matters remarkable.
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