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M. de Lameth set about raising the money; he saw the Spanish ambassador and had the matter broached to Pitt who refused. Danton, as he said he would, voted for the King's death, and then aided or allowed the return of M. de Lameth to Switzerland. "Memoires," 317. "Twenty times, he said to me one day, I offered them peace. They did not want it. Robinet, passim.
I, The Youth of Mirabeau, was published in 1908; the most recent and convenient French treatment is by Louis Barthou ; a standard German work is Alfred Stern, Das Leben Mirabeaus, 2 vols. ; and for a real insight into Mirabeau's character and policies, reference should be made to his Correspondance avec le comte de la Marck, 3 vols. . Hilaire Belloc has written very readable and suggestive English biographies of Danton , Robespierre , and Marie Antoinette . Perhaps the best brief appreciation of Danton is that by Louis Madelin ; J. F. E. Robinet has written a valuable Danton , and likewise a Condorcet . The elaborate Histoire de Robespierre et du coup d'etat du 9 thermidor by Ernest Hamel, 3 vols.
One day, the Comptroller of the royal buildings, who had been ordered to keep the men hard at it, Sundays and fete days, asked the Pere Robinet, the King's confessor, and the only good one he ever had; he asked, I say, in one of those rooms Madame des Ursins was so anxious to avoid, and in the presence of various courtiers, if the work was to be continued on the morrow, a Sunday, and the next day, the Fete of the Virgin.
The caterpillars, when placed on a mulberry-tree, often commit the strange mistake of devouring the base of the leaf on which they are feeding, and consequently fall down; but they are capable, according to M. Robinet, of again crawling up the trunk. Here are some instances of like meaning from volume ii.
A drop of water from the roof put the candle out, and all his efforts to return by the way he came were futile. Meanwhile, his parishioners, hunting high and low for their curé, chanced to see his soutane, where he had left it, hanging to a bush at the entrance of the Grotte de Robinet, and when they rescued him, there was very little left of his passion for studying nature underground.
He was not very tall, and pale, with thick chestnut hair, irregular features, and a wide, full mouth. She was like a small bird. He often called her a "robinet". Though naturally rather quiet, he would sit and chatter with her for hours telling her about his home. The girls all liked to hear him talk. They often gathered in a little circle while he sat on a bench, and held forth to them, laughing.
It would have been a slight upon Marcillac had I left the place without seeing the most famous of its caverns, which goes by the name of the Grotte de Robinet. I might have looked for it in vain all day had I not taken a guide. First, the causse had to be reached by ascending the cliffs on the right bank of the Célé.
I put on a blouse before entering, and had great reason to be glad that I did so. In spite of all the mischief that has been done to it, the Grotte de Robinet is a very remarkable cavern, and the time spent on the somewhat arduous and slippery task of exploring its depths is not wasted. Its length is about half a mile, and the descent, which is almost continuous, is at times very rapid.
Garat, 309: "After the 20th of June everybody made mischief at the chateau; the power of which was daily increasing. Danton arranged the 10th of August and the chateau was thunderstruck." Robinet: "Le Proces des Dantonistes," 224, 229. "He was present for a moment on the committee of Public Safety. III., ch. I.-Buchez et Roux, XXV., 285.
The clever and courageous Robinet, as disturbed as others at the progress of the design, which nobody in the two Courts of France and Spain doubted was in execution, allowed himself to be pressed by questions in an embrasure where the King had drawn him played the reserved and the mysterious in order to excite curiosity more.
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