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* The base and selfish timidity of the Convention is strongly evinced by their suffering fifty innocent people to be guillotined on the very ninth of Thermidor, for a pretended conspiracy in the prison of St. Lazare. A single word from any member might at this crisis have suspended the execution of the sentence, but that word no one had the courage or the humanity to utter.
We should have the whole of the rabble of Paris clamouring for our blood. If, after we have guillotined him, he is proved to be a good patriot, it will be my turn next. No! I thank you!" "I tell you, man," retorted Chauvelin desperately, "that the man is not Paul Mole that he is the English spy whom we all know as the Scarlet Pimpernel." "EH BIEN!" riposted Fouquier-Tinville.
"Because he is as cowardly as a cow, he will get us guillotined, as father was." "Since you call me a spy," cried Francois, exasperated, "I shall tell everything to Martial. I have not told him yet, for I have not seen him since; but when he returns to-night, I " The child dared not finish, for his mother advanced toward him, calm but inexorable.
In answer to Marat's questioning look she told him that there was much excitement at Caen and that the Girondists were plotting there. To this Marat answered, in his harsh voice: "All these men you mention shall be guillotined in the next few days!"
I have often pointed out that under the first democracy Louis XVI was guillotined for having wished to leave the country, while under the third democracy his great-nephews were exiled for wishing to remain in it. Ostracism is, in these instances, still feeling its way, and its action is contradictory because it has not made up its mind.
He was a façile speaker whose eloquence was of a forensic type. His friendships were passionate. While in prison he received news of the death of one of his friends, Gilbert, who had been guillotined at Evreux, and when some one congratulated him on his approaching release he replied: "Ah, my dear comrade! do you think this is a time to congratulate me?
They threw a cloth upon the carcass and carried away the pannier; the guillotine disappeared beneath the surrounding heads; loud exclamations and acclaims burst from the multitude; the venders of trash and edibles resumed their cheerful cries, and a hearse dashed through the mass, carrying the warm body of the guillotined to the cemetery of Mt. Parnasse.
It was not till after he had cast in his lot with the emigrés that the king was deposed and guillotined. Nor have pure democracies, in the few instances where they have undertaken to exercise directly all the powers of government, showed less tendency to be arbitrary and inconsiderate of individual freedom and desires.
He dressed exquisitely, was inclined to the Polignac party, took his ease everywhere, had a knowledge of cards and courts, and little else. He was cheated by his stewards, refused to believe that the Revolution was serious, and would undoubtedly have been guillotined had the Vicomtesse not contrived to get him out of France in spite of himself.
Similarly, the great exterminator of Nantes, Carrier, when urged to spare the rebels who surrendered of their own accord: "Do you want me to be guillotined? It is not in my power to save those people." And another time: "I have my orders; I must observe them; I do not want to have my head cut off!"
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