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"You are going to the house of a worthy couple, who have shown themselves faithful and trustworthy by nursing a friend of mine, who has for nearly six months been lying ill there. You will be perfectly safe there till we can arrange matters." "But if Robespierre has signed my release, as they said, I am safe enough, surely, and can go where I like."
Nay, the court itself, not yet accustomed to riot in daily carnage, showed signs of emotion. The sitting was adjourned; and a rumour went forth that there would be an acquittal. The Jacobins met, breathing vengeance. Robespierre undertook to be their organ.
Superbly the Lion of the Revolution faced the judges and the mob, and demanded a hearing. Robespierre uplifted eyebrows and half-smiled, vulpinely. His rapid exchange of looks with the Court seemed to say: "Well, we have got to listen to this crazy man, but be on guard!" The president, Jacques-Forget-Not, took the cue and acceded to Danton's request.
A secret, summary, and atrocious tribunal it is, differing in no essential particular from that sanguinary tribunal in Paris where Robespierre passed sentence, and the guillotine executed it.
Finally, there was a trio whose business it was to translate action into the phrases of revolutionary policy. This famous group was Robespierre, Couthon, and Saint Just. Besides the Committee of Public Safety there was another chief governmental committee, that of General Security.
After all, 'Religion ist in der Thiere Trieb, says Wallenstein; 'the very savage drinks not with the victim, into whose breast he means to plunge a sword. Danton was warned that Robespierre was plotting his arrest.
If Robespierre had been a statesman instead of a phrasemonger, he had a clear course. He ought to have taken the line of argument that Danton would have taken.
On another occasion, Robespierre, in a rage, exclaimed: "The Committee is conspiring against me!" and, turning to Billaud, "I know you, now!" Billaud retorted, "I know you too, you are a counter-revolutionary!" There are conspirators and counter-revolutionaries, then, on the committee itself; what can be done to avoid this appellation, which is a sentence of death?
In April, 1795, a decree was passed banishing Billaud de Varennes, Collot d'Herbois, and Barère. In the following month the leaders of the Committee of General Security were thrown into prison. The revolution had passed into new currents. We cannot see any reasons for thinking that those currents would have led to any happier results if Robespierre had won the battle.
He seemed to be vexed at having come, and because I was there. "In the middle of the dinner, Petion, addressing M. Decreteau, exclaimed: 'My dear host, you must get this buck married! He pointed to Robespierre. "'What do you mean, Petion? retorted Robespierre. "'Mean, said Petion, 'why, that you must get married. I insist upon marrying you.
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