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Updated: June 24, 2025
At each return of the thrilling invocation, "Aux armes, citoyens!" the old man snapped his fingers, and beat the floor with his feet, marking the time of the music. He was filled with the same spirit which at that time, over all Europe, was gathering to its crisis.
The native taciturnity of the English, increased by the social discipline of that well-ordered perhaps over-ordered nation, has won them as many battles on the ocean, as the native loquacity of their enemies increased possibly during the reign of les citoyens by political exaggeration has lost.
The 24 Frimaire, at ten in the forenoon, under a clear bright sun that was melting the ice formed in the night, the citoyens Guénot and Delourmel, delegates of the Committee of General Security, proceeded to the Barnabites and asked to be conducted to the Committee of Surveillance of the Section, in the Capitular hall, whose only occupant for the moment was the citoyen Beauvisage, who was piling logs on the fire.
It was being worked by inexpert hands, for the time was something jerky; but it was robbed of its tinny meanness and even majesty by the hugeness of a cavern's roof, as well as by the crashing, swinging march it played wild -wonderful invented for lawless hours and a kingless people. "Marchons! Citoyens! The procession began to tramp in time to it, and the rock shook.
But the main army of the nation was pursuing the ordinary pursuits of civil life. To resist the might of Germany, the greatest military Power in Europe, already approaching the frontiers in vast masses of men and machines, France would have to call out all her manhood which had been trained in military service. Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons!
"Citizen General," he said gracefully, "we come and pay our respec's to you and mek our report, and ver' happy to see you look well. Citoyens, Vive la Republique! Hail to the Citizen General!" "Vive la Republique! Vive le General!" cried the three citizens behind him. "Citizens, you are very welcome," answered the General, gravely, as he descended the steps and took each of them by the hand.
No sooner was the sentence passed, than Lesurques rose calmly, and addressing the Judges, said, "I am innocent of the crime of which I am accused. Ah! citoyens, if it is horrible to murder on the high-road, it is not less so to murder by the law!" Couriol, condemned to death, rose and said, "Yes, I am guilty I avow it. But Lesurques is innocent, and Bernard did not participate in the murder."
Within a few hours of the receipt of this impudent notice, the citoyens of the Committee of Public Safety would hear that so many royalists and aristocrats had succeeded in reaching the coast, and were on their way to England and safety.
On the scaffold he showed much composure, smiling half proudly, half reproachfully, yet wholly kindly upon the crowd in front of him. "Citoyens," he said, "Je me nomine Buffon," and laid his head upon the block. The noblest outcome of the old and decaying order, overwhelmed in the most hateful birth frenzy of the new.
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