He was the victim of an adulator of the people! Ah! this reminds me of the horrible calumny uttered against Condorcet! Who are you who dare to slander this great man?
What have you done?
What are your labours, your writings?
Can you quote, as he can, so many assaults during three years by himself with Voltaire and D'Alembert against the throne, superstition, prejudices, and the aristocracy?
Where would you be, where this tribune, were it not for these gentlemen?
They are your masters; and you insult those who gain you the voices of the people.

You assail Condorcet, as though his life had not been a series of sacrifices! A philosopher, he became a politician; academician, he became a newspaper writer; a courtier, he became one of the people; noble, he became a Jacobin! Beware! you are following the concealed impulses of the court.

Ah, I will not imitate my adversaries, I would not repeat those rumours which assert they are paid by the civil list." (There was a report that Robespierre had been gained over to oppose the war.) "I shall not say a word of a secret committee which they frequent, and in which are concerted the means of influencing this society; but I will say that they follow in the track of the promoters of civil war.

I will say, that without meaning it, they do more harm to the patriots than the court.

And at what moment do they throw division amongst us?
At the moment when we have a foreign war, and when an intestine war threatens us.