, 76.77, (March, 1789). "My heart is an honest one and
I stand firm; I have never bowed beneath the yoke of baseness and
corruption." He enumerates the virtues that a representative of the
Third Estate should possess (26, 83). He already shows his blubbering
capacity and his disposition to regard himself as a victim: "They
undertake making martyrs of the people's defenders. Had they the
power to deprive me of the advantages they envy, could they snatch
from me my soul and the consciousness of the benefits I desire to
confer on them."
[108] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII. "Who am I that am thus accused? The
slave of freedom, a living martyr to the Republic, at once the victim
and the enemy of crime!" See this speech in full.
[109] Especially in his address to the French people, (Aug., 1791),
which, in a justificatory form, is his apotheosis. - Cf. Hamel, II.,
212; Speech in the Jacobin club, (April 27, 1792).
[110] Hamel, I., 517, 532, 559; II., 5.
[111] Lar?veill?re-Lepeaux," M?moires." - Barbaroux, "M?moires," 358.
(Both, after a visit to him.)
[112] Robespierre's devotees constantly attend at the Jacobin club and
in the convention to hear him speak and applaud him, and are called,
from their condition and dress, " the fat petticoats.
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