Descoings perished; but he had the glory of going to the scaffold with Andre Chenier.

There, no doubt, grocery and poetry embraced for the first time in the flesh; although they have, and ever have had, intimate secret relations.

The death of Descoings produced far more sensation than that of Andre Chenier.

It has taken thirty years to prove to France that she lost more by the death of Chenier than by that of Descoings.
This act of Robespierre led to one good result: the terrified grocers let politics alone until 1830.

Descoings's shop was not a hundred yards from Robespierre's lodging.