He had founded, under Danton, the Cordeliers club, the club of _coups de main_, as the Jacobins was the club of radical theories; and he convulsed it to its very centre, by his eloquence untaught and unpolished.

He compared himself to the peasant of the Danube.

Always more ready to strike than to speak, Legendre's gesture crushed before he spoke.

He was the mace of Danton.

Huguenin, one of those men who roll from profession to profession, on the acclivity of troublous times, without the power to arrest his course; an advocate expelled from the body to which he belonged; then a soldier, and a clerk at the barriere; always disliked, aspiring for power to recover his fortune, and suspected of pillage.