On the 30th of April another storm broke out.
It was proposed to interdict all denunciations unaccompanied by proofs.
"Reflect on what is proposed to you," said Robespierre: "the majority here belongs to a faction, which desires by this means to calumniate us freely, and stifle our accusations by silence.

If you decree that I am prohibited from defending myself from the libellers who conspire against me, I shall quit this place, and will bury myself in retreat." "We will follow you, Robespierre," exclaimed the women in the tribunes.

"They have profited by the discourse of Petion," he continued, "to disseminate infamous libels against me.

Petion himself is insulted.

His heart beats in sympathy with mine; he groans over the insults with which I am assailed.