"Who am I that am thus accused?
The slave of freedom, a living martyr to the Republic, at once the victim and the enemy of crime!" See this speech in full.] [Footnote 31109: Especially in his address to the French people, (Aug., 1791), which, in a justificatory form, is his apotheosis .-- Cf.

Hamel, II., 212; Speech in the Jacobin club, (April 27, 1792).] [Footnote 31110: Hamel, I., 517, 532, 559; II., 5.] [Footnote 31111: Lareveillere-Lepeaux," Memoires."-- Barbaroux, "Memoires," 358.

(Both, after a visit to him.)] [Footnote 31112: Robespierre's devotees constantly attend at the Jacobin club and in the convention to hear him speak and applaud him, and are called, from their condition and dress, "the fat petticoats."] [Footnote 31113: Buchez et Roux, XX., 197.

(Meeting of Nov.

I, 1792.)--"Chronique de Paris," Nov.