This interview confirmed me in the idea I always had of him, that he combined the enlightenment of a wise senator with the uprightness of a genuine good man and the zeal of a true patriot, but that he equally lacked the views and boldness of a statesman."-- Thibaudeau, "Memoires," 58 .-- He was the only member of the committee of Public Safety who did not join the department missions.] [Footnote 31153: Someone is "grandisonian" when he is like the novelist Richardson's hero, Sir Walter Grandison, beneficient, polite and chivalrous.

(SR).] [Footnote 31154: Buchez et Roux XX., 198.

(Speech of Robespierre in the Convention, November 5, 1792.)] [Footnote 31155: All these statements by Robespierre are opposed to the truth .-- ("Proces-verbaux des Seances de la Commune de Paris.") Sep.

1, 1792, Robespierre speaks twice at the evening session .-- The testimony of two persons, both agreeing, indicate, moreover, that he spoke at the morning session, the names of the speakers not being given.

"The question," says Petion (Buchez et Roux, XXI., 103), "was the decree opening the barriers." This decree is under discussion at the Commune at the morning session of September 1: "Robespierre, on this question, spoke in the most animated manner, wandering off in sombre flights of imagination; he saw precipices at his feet and plots of liberticides; he designated the pretended conspirators."-- Louvet (ibid., 130), assigns the same date, (except that he takes the evening for the morning session), for Robespierre's first denunciation of the Girondists: "Nobody, then," says Robespierre, "dare name the traitors?
Very well, I denounce them.