2), took the lead in the Conseil"- Ibid.,
107. " Robespierre," I said, "you are making a good deal of mischief.
Your denunciations, your fears, hatreds and suspicions, excite the
people."
[156] Garat, 86.-Cf. Hamel, I., 264. (Speech, June 9, 1791.)
[157] "The Revolution," II., 338, 339. (Speech. Aug. 3, 1792.)
[158] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 420. (Speech, Thermidor 8.)
[159] Ibid., XXXII., 71. (Speech against Danton.) "What have you done
that you have not done freely?"
[160] Ibid., XXXIII., 199 and 221. (Speech on the law of Prairial
22.)
[161] Mirabeau said of Robespierre: "Whatever that man has said, he
believes in it. - Robespierre, Duplay's guest, dined every day with
Duplay, a juryman in the revolutionary tribunal and co-operator for
the guillotine, at eighteen francs a day. The talk at the table
probably turned on the current abstractions; but there must have been
frequent allusions to the condemnations of the day, and, even when not
mentioned, they were in their minds. Only Robert Browning, at the
present day, could imagine and revive what was spoken and thought in
those evening conversations before the mother and daughters.
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