This was his only crime, or rather the only error of his hate; and this was the only cause for remorse he felt at the foot of the scaffold.
XVI.
"Sire," said Roland in this celebrated letter, "things cannot remain in their present state; it is a state of crises, and we must be extricated from it by some extreme measure (_une explosion quelconque_).

France has given itself a constitution; the minority are undermining, the majority are defending, it.

There arises a fierce internal struggle in which no person remains neuter.

You enjoyed supreme power, and could not have laid it down without regret.

The enemies of the Revolution took into calculation the sentiments they presume you entertain.