- Dubois-Cranc? took Lyons, and, as pay for this immense
service, he is stricken off the roll of the Jacobin Club; because he
did not take it quick enough, he is accused of treachery; two days
after the capitulation, the Committee of Public Safety withdraw his
powers; three days after the capitulation, the Committee of Public
Safety has him arrested and sent to Paris under escort.[92] - If such
men after such services are thus treated, what is to become of the
others? After the mission of young Julien, then Carrier at Nantes,
Ysabeau and Tallien at Bordeaux, feel their heads shake on their
shoulders; after the mission of Robespierre jr. in the East and
South, Barras, Fr?ron and Bernard de Saintes believe themselves
lost.[93] Fouch?, Rov?re, Javogue, and how many others, compromised by
the faction, H?bertists or Dantonists, of which they are, or were
belonging. Sure of perishing if their patrons on the Committee
succumb; not sure of living if their patrons keep their place; not
knowing whether their heads will not be exchanged for others;
restricted to the narrowest, the most rigorous and most constant
orthodoxy; guilty and condemned should their orthodoxy of to-day
become the heterodoxy of to-morrow.
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