Courage--those who have carefully studied his private life, and have learnt what he endured, and dared to do in overcoming the enemies Of his system, can hardly doubt his courage.
Calumny or error has thrown an unmerited disgrace over his last wretched days.

He has been supposed to have wounded himself in an impotent attempt to put an end to his life.

It has been ascertained that such was not the fact, the pistol by which he was wounded having been fired by one of the soldiers by whom he was arrested.

He is stated also to have wanted that firmness in death which so many of his victims displayed.
They triumphed even in their death.

Louis and Vergniaud, Marie Antoinette, and Madame Roland, felt that they were stepping from life into glory, and their step was light and elastic.