(Speech, Dec.25, 1793): "The virtues are the appanages of the unfortunate and the patrimony of the people."] [Footnote 3187: Cf.

passim, Hamel, "Histoire de Robespierre," 3 vols.

An elaborate panegyric full of details.

Although eighty years have elapsed, Robespierre still makes dupes of people through his attitudes and rhetorical flourishes.

M.Hamel twice intimates his resemblance to Jesus Christ.