, of not addressing the Convention
often enough, to which he replies: "After twenty years' devotion to
the practice of medicine I have succeeded in supporting my sans-
culotte father and my sans-culottes sisters. . . . As to the
charge made by a member that I have given most of my time to science.
. . . I have attended the Lyc?e des Arts but three times, and then
only for the purpose of sans-culotteising it."
[32] Michelet, (1798-1874), "Histoire de la R?volution," V., preface
XXX (3rd ed.). "When I was young and looking for a job, I was
referred to an esteemed Review, to a well-known philanthropist,
devoted to education, to the people, and to the welfare of humanity.
I found a very small man of a melancholic, mild and tame aspect. We
were in front of the fire, on which he fixed his eyes without looking
at me. He talked a long time, in a didactic, monotonous tone of
voice. I felt ill at ease and sick at heart, and got away as soon as
I could. It was this little man, I afterwards learned, who hunted
down the Girondists, and had them guillotined, and which he
accomplished at the age of twenty." - This man's name was Julien de la
Dr?me. I (Taine) saw him once when quite young.
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