It would be a horrid spectacle to present to the world, if, having the option of declaring a king criminal or idiotic, you did not prefer the latter alternative." On the 27th, Girey Dupre, a young writer who awaited the Gironde, mooted the judgment of Louis XVI.

"We can punish a perjured king, and we ought;" such was the text of his discourse.

Brissot opened the question as Petion had done at the preceding sitting, "_Can a perjured king be brought to trial_ (_juge_)?
"Why," asked Brissot "should we divide ourselves into dangerous denominations?
we are all of one opinion.

What do they want who are here hostile to the republicans?
They detest the turbulent assemblies of Athens and Rome; they fear the division of France into isolated federations.

They only want the representative constitution, and they are right.