Such had been its mad course.

But with the death of the king and queen, the madness had reached its height, and a revulsion of feeling set in.

There was a surfeit of blood, and an awakening sense of horror, which turned upon the instigators.

Danton fell, and finally, when amid cries of "Death to the tyrant!" Robespierre was dragged wounded and shivering to the fate he had brought upon so many thousands, the drama which had opened at the Bastille was fittingly closed.
The great battle for human liberty had been fought and won.

Religious freedom and political freedom were identical in principle.