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To-day we still have Danton and Foucquier-Tinville; we still have Pere Duchesne, and your own good cousin Antoine St. Just, but Heron and his like are with us always." "Spies, of course?" "Spies," assented the other. "And what spies! Were you present at the sitting of the Assembly to-day?" "I was. I heard the new decree which already has passed into law. Ah!
Every day Bibot had had the satisfaction of unmasking some fugitive royalists and sending them back to be tried by the Committee of Public Safety, presided over by that good patriot, Citoyen Foucquier-Tinville. Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.
The giant's heavy footsteps echoed along the ill-paved street, and gradually died away in the distance. Then at last Foucquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, spoke: "And who is that man?" he asked, addressing the assembly of patriots. Most of them did not know.
Foucquier-Tinville suppresses a sneer, and the Citizen-President impatiently rings his hand-bell again. "Bring forth the accused!" he commands in stentorian tones. There is a movement of satisfaction among the crowd, and the angel of God is forced to hide his face again. The trial of Juliette.
One by one the accused had been brought forth, escorted by two men of the National Guard in ragged, stained uniforms of red, white, and blue; they were then conducted to the small raised platform in the centre of the hall, and made to listen to the charge brought against them by Citizen Foucquier-Tinville, the Public Presecutor.
And Citizen-Deputy Foucquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, had surpassed himself. He seemed indefatigable. Each of these five and thirty prisoners had been arraigned for treason against the Republic, for conspiracy with her enemies, and all had to have irrefutable proofs of their guilt brought before the Committee of Public Safety.
"Foucquier-Tinville I know; I know his cunning, and I know his power but the other?" "The other?" retorted de Batz lightly. "Heron? Let me tell you, my friend, that even the might and lust of that damned Public Prosecutor pale before the power of Heron!" "But how? I do not understand."
The other leaned over the edge of the box, and his small, restless eyes wandered over the now closely-packed auditorium. "Oh!" he said as soon as he recognised the face which his friend had pointed out to him, "that is citizen Foucquier-Tinville." "The Public Prosecutor?" "Himself. And Heron is the man next to him." "Heron?" said the younger man interrogatively. "Yes.
"La guillotine va toujours!" After the death of Marat, Merlin became the most prominent member of the club he and Foucquier-Tinville, his bosom friend, Public Prosecutor, and the most bloodthirsty homicide of this homicidal age. Bosom friend both, yet they worked against one another, undermining each other's popularity, whispering persistently, one against the other: "He is a traitor!"
A little flower red? yes! They say in Paris that every time a royalist escapes to England that devil, Foucquier-Tinville, the Public Prosecutor, receives a paper with that little flower designated in red upon it. . . . Yes?" "Yes, that is so," assented Lord Antony. "Then he will have received one such paper to-day?" "Undoubtedly." "Oh! I wonder what he will say!" said Suzanne, merrily.
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