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Taine, Hippolyte, 1828-1893

"The French Revolution - Volume 3"


It is well for you to know that a few lines from me could send you to
the guillotine in two days."
[63] Buchez et Roux, XXX., 185. (Reply of Billaud, Collot, Vadier and
Bar?re to the renewed charges against them by Lecointre.) - Moniteur,
XXIV., 84. (Session of Germinal 7, year III.) Words of Bar?re: "On
the 4th of Thermidor, in the Committee, Robespierre speaks like a man
who had orders to give and victims to point out." - " And you,
Bar?re," he replies, "remember the report you made on the2nd of
Thermidor,"
[64] Heraclitus ( c. 540-480 BC) pre-Socratic philosopher, who
believed in a cosmic justice where sinners would be punished and
haunted by the Erinyes, (the furies) the handmaids of justice. (SR).
[65] Saint-Just, report on the Girondists, July 8, 1793; on the
necessity of imprisoning persons inimical to the Revolution, Feb.26,
1794; on the H?bertists, March 13; on the arrest of Herault-S?chelles
and Simond, March 17; on the arrest of Danton and associates March 31;
on a general policy, April 15. - Cf., likewise, his report on
declaring the government revolutionary until peace is declared, Oct.
10, 1793, and his report of the 9th of Thermidor, year II.


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