Robespierre climbs up on the tribune and declares that he will calmly face the steel of the enemies of public good, and carry with him to his grave the satisfaction of having served his country, the certainty of France having preserved its liberty" .-- (Archives Nationales, C.II., 58-76.)] [Footnote 31149: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 360, 371.

(Speech of May 7, 1794.) "Danton! the most dangerous, if he had not been the most cowardly, of the enemies of his country....

Danton, the coldest, the most indifferent, during his country's greatest peril."] [Footnote 31150: Ibid., XXXIV.,--Cf.

the description of him by Fievee, who saw him in the tribune at the Jacobin Club.] [Footnote 31151: Merlin de Thionville "A vague, painful anxiety, due to his temperament, was the sole source of his activity."] [Footnote 31152: Barere, "Memoires." "He wanted to rule France influentially rather than directly."-- Buchez et Roux, XIV., 188.
(Article by Marat.) During the early sessions of the Legislative Assembly, Marat saw Robespierre on one occasion, and explained to him his plans for exciting popular outbreaks, and for his purifying massacres.

"Robespierre listened to me with dismay, turned pale and kept silent for some moments.