"Chief of a party, agitator of the people, secret agent of the Austrian committee," he said, "these are the names thrown in my teeth, and to which they urge me to reply! I shall not make the answer of Scipio or La Fayette, who, when accused in the tribune of the crime of _leze-nation_, only replied by their silence.

I shall reply by my life.
"A pupil of Jean Jacques Rousseau, his doctrines have inspired my soul for the people.

The spectacles of the great assemblies in the first days of our Revolution have filled me with hope.

I soon understood the difference that exists between those limited assemblies, composed of men of ambitious views, or egotists, and the nation itself.

My voice was stifled there; but I preferred rather to excite the murmurs of the enemies of truth, than to obtain applauses that were disgraceful.