In proportion as the Revolution became more bloody, she plunged deeper into it.

She could no longer exist, without the feverish excitement of public emotion.

However, her early leaning to the Girondist party again displayed itself, and she also wished to stay the progress of the Revolution.

But there were women whose power was superior even to her own.

These women, called the _furies_ of the guillotine, stripped the belle Liegoise of her attire, and publicly flogged her on the terrace of the Tuileries, on the 31st of May.