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Osselin, Chabot, Bazire, Julien de Toulouse, Lacroix, Danton, were on them, and when they left, their heads fell. Herault-Sechelles, again, was on them, maintained in office with honor through the recent approbation of the Convention, one of the titular twelve, and on duty when an order issued by the other eleven suddenly handed him over to the revolutionary Tribunal for execution.
Herault-Sechelles, who voted for murdering the King, who belongs to the Committee of Public Safety, who, in the Upper-Rhine, has just carried out the worst revolutionary ordinances, but who has the misfortune to be rich and a man of the world, is led to the scaffold, and those devoted to the guillotine readily explain his condemnation: he is no patriot, how could he be, enjoying an income of two hundred thousand livres, and, moreover, is he not a general-advocate?
Report by Herault-Sechelles. "Each of us had the same desire, that of attaining to the greatest democratic result. Number of voters on call, 1,795,908; Yes, 1,784,377; Noes, 11,531. Number of primary assemblies voting Yes unanimously, not on call of names, 297. At Paris, 40,990 voters, at Troyes, 2,491, at Limoges, 2,137. Cf. For details and motives of abstention, Sauzay IV. pp. 157-161.
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