Robespierre, the patriots do not like that you should present such a spectacle to them.

When the people press around the tribune to which you ascend, it is not to hear your self-eulogies, but to hear you enlighten popular opinion.

You are incorruptible--true; but yet there are better citizens than you: there are those who are as good, and do not boast of it.

Why have you not the simplicity which is ignorant of itself, and that right quality of the ancient times which you sometimes refer to as possessed by you?
"You are accused, Robespierre, of having been present at a secret conference, held some time since at the Princesse de Lamballe's, at which the queen Marie Antoinette was present.

No mention is made of the terms of the bargain between you and these two women, who would corrupt you.