Clavi?re stabs himself in prison. R?becqui is found
drowned in the harbor of Marseilles, and P?tion and Buzon half eaten
by wolves on a moor of Saint-Emilion. Valady is executed at
P?rigueux, Dech?zeau at Rochefort, Grangeneuve, Guadet, Salle and
Barbaroux at Bordeaux, Coustard, Cussy, Rabout-Saint-?tienne, Bernard,
Masuyer, and Lebrun at Paris. Even those who resigned in January,
1793, Kersaint and Manuel, atone with their lives for the crime of
having sided with the "Right" and, of course, Madame Roland, who is
taken for the leader of the party, is one of the first to be
guillotined.[109] - Of the one-hundred and eighty Girondins who led
the Convention, one hundred and forty have perished or are in prison,
or fled under sentence of death. After such a curtailment and such an
example the remaining deputies cannot be otherwise than docile;[110]
neither in the central nor in the local government will the "Mountain"
encounter resistance; its despotism is practically established, and
all that remains is to proclaim this in legal form.
XI.
Institutions of the Revolutionary Government. - Its principle,
objects, proceedings, tools and structure.
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