") Sep. 1, 1792,
Robespierre speaks twice at the evening session. - The testimony of
two persons, both agreeing, indicate, moreover, that he spoke at the
morning session, the names of the speakers not being given. "The
question," says P?tion (Buchez et Roux, XXI., 103), "was the decree
opening the barriers." This decree is under discussion at the Commune
at the morning session of September 1: "Robespierre, on this question,
spoke in the most animated manner, wandering off in sombre flights of
imagination; he saw precipices at his feet and plots of liberticides;
he designated the pretended conspirators."- Louvet (ibid., 130),
assigns the same date, (except that he takes the evening for the
morning session), for Robespierre's first denunciation of the
Girondists: "Nobody, then," says Robespierre, "dare name the traitors?
Very well, I denounce them. I denounce them for the security of the
people. I denounce the liberticide Brissot, the Girondist faction,
the villainous committee of twenty-one in the National Assembly. I
denounce them for having sold France to Brunswick and for having
received pay in advance for their baseness." - Sep. 2, ("Proc?s
verbaux de la Commune," evening session), "MM.
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