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Updated: June 18, 2025
And so it is here: Gauvain and Cimourdain pass away, and we regard them no more than the lost armies of which we find the cold statistics in military annals; what we regard is what remains behind; it is the principle that put these men where they were, that filled them for a while with heroic inspiration, and has the power, now that they are fallen, to inspire others with the same courage.
Their arguments with one another make the situation more intelligible to the historic student, as they make the characters of the speakers more transparent for the purposes of the romance. This is Cimourdain: "Beware, there are terrible duties in life. Do not accuse what is not responsible. Since when has the disorder been the fault of the physician?
"The Revolution," says Victor Hugo, "by the side of youthful figures of giants, such as Danton, Saint-Just, and Robespierre, has young ideal figures, like Hoche and Marceau. Cimourdain has himself named delegate from the Committee of Public Safety to the expeditionary column of which Gauvain is in command.
It is wrong to do ill in order to do good. You do not pull down the throne to leave the scaffold standing. Let us hurl away crowns, let us spare heads. The revolution is concord, not affright. Mild ideas are ill-served by men who do not know pity. Amnesty is for me the noblest word in human speech. These two together, Cimourdain and Gauvain, make an ideal pair of the revolutionists of '93.
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