and the accusation of his accomplices.
ROBESPIERRE opposed the inviolability; he avoided all show of anger in his language; and was careful to veil all his conclusions beneath the cover of mildness and humanity.

"I will not pause to inquire," he said, "whether the king fled voluntarily, of his own act, or if from the extremity of the frontiers a citizen carried him off by his advice: I will not inquire either, whether this flight is a conspiracy against the public liberty.

I shall speak of the king as of an imaginary sovereign, and of inviolability as a principle." After having combated the principle of inviolability by the same arguments which Girey Dupre and Brissot had applied, Robespierre thus concluded.
"The measures you propose cannot but dishonour you; if you adopt them, I demand to declare myself the advocate of all the accused.

I will be the defender of the three _gardes du corps_, the dauphine's governess, even of Monsieur de Bouille.

By the principles of your committees, there is no crime; yet, invariably, where there is no crime there can be no accomplices.