You have found those men--Robespierre and Petion.

Will you abandon them to their enemies ?" "No! no!" exclaimed a thousand voices, and a motion, proposed by the president (Danton), declaring that Brissot had calumniated Robespierre, was carried in the affirmative.
II.
The journals took part, according to their politics, in these intestine wars of the patriots.

"Robespierre," said the _Revolution de Paris_, "how is it that this man, whom the people bore in triumph to his house when he left the Constituent Assembly, has now become a problem?
For a long while you believed yourself the only column of French liberty.

Your name was like the holy ark, no one could touch it without being struck with death.

You sought to be the man of the people.