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These are the work of Nicholas Drouin, a native of the town, and formerly ornamented a tomb in the church of the Cordeliers just mentioned. The physiognomy, expression, and pose of St. Augustine are well worthy of a sculptor's closest study, but it is rather as a whole than in detail that this exquisite statue delights the ordinary observer.
I should have been with them had we not heard that a strong body of republican troops is to be stationed at Parthenay. They say that Santerre is to command a party of Marseillaise, commissioned to exterminate the Vendeans." "What, Santerre, the brewer of the Faubourgs?" "The same, Danton's friend, he who used to be so loud at the Cordeliers; and Westerman is to assist him," said Henri.
École des Beaux Arts St. Germain des Prés Cour du Dragon St. Sulpice The Luxembourg The Odéon The Cordeliers The Surgeons' Guild The Musée Cluny The Sorbonne The Panthéon St. Étienne du Mont Tour Clovis Wall of Philip Augustus Roman Amphitheatre
He distinguished himself frequently at the clubs of the Cordeliers, and of the Jacobins, by his extravagant motions, and by provoking laws of proscription against a wealth he did not possess, and against a rank he would have dishonoured, but did not see without envy.
Tell me, I entreat you, for the last time, fathers, what I must believe in order to be a Catholic?’ ‘You must say,’ they all cried at once, ‘that all the just have the proximate power.’ . . . ‘What necessity can there be,’ I argued, ‘for using a word which has neither authority nor definite meaning?’ ‘You are an opinionative fellow,’ they replied. ‘You shall use the word, or you are a heretic, and M. Arnauld also; for we are the majority, and if necessary we can bring the Cordeliers into the field and carry the day.’”
"He would have the fate of Cassandra," said the man in black; "no one would believe him yes, the priests would: but they would make no sign of belief. They believe in the Alcoran des Cordeliers that is, those who have read it; but they make no sign."
Numerous deputations from Paris and the neighbouring departments came successively to the bar to assure the Assembly that it would ever be considered as the rallying point by all good citizens. The same evening the clubs of the Cordeliers and the Jacobins caused the motions for the king's dethronement to be placarded about.
The two notions of government are contradictory, and the bodies that incorporated them were naturally hostile. But their antagonism was suspended while Robespierre stood between. The reformed Commune at once closed all clubs that were not Jacobin. All parties had been crushed: Royalists, Feuillants, Girondins, Cordeliers.
The club of the Cordeliers declared in one of its placards that every citizen who belonged to it had sworn individually to poignard the tyrants. Marat, one of its members, published and distributed in Paris an incendiary proclamation. "People," said he, "behold the loyalty, the honour, the religion of kings.
He was not of those who had thought the Jacobins slow and had massed themselves, with Danton and the Club of the Cordeliers, nor was he with the milder Lafayette and the Feuillants Club; he was no blind follower of any party, yet he was trusted without being thoroughly understood. It was difficult to decide which held the higher place with him, his country or his own interests.
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