9, 1792, article by Condorcet.
With the keen insight of the man of the world, he saw clearly into Robespierre's character.

"Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures; he is animated, grave, melancholy, deliberately enthusiastic and systematic in his ideas, and conduct.

He thunders against the rich and the great; he lives on nothing and has no physical necessities.

His sole mission is to talk, and this he does almost constantly...

His characteristics are not those of a religious reformer, but of the chief of a sect.