(Sessions of Ventose 26, year II.

Speech of Robespierre.) "In what country has a powerful senate ever sought in its own bosom for the betrayers of the common cause and handed them over to the sword of the law?
Who has ever furnished the world with this spectacle?
You, my fellow citizens."] [Footnote 3212: Miot de Melito, "Memoires," I.44.Danton, at table in the ministry of Foreign Affairs, remarked: "The Revolution, like Saturn, eats its own children." As to Camille Desmoulins, "His melancholy already indicated a presentiment of his fate; the few words he allowed to escape him always turned on questions and observations concerning the nature of punishment, inflicted on those condemned by the revolutionary Tribunal and the best way of preparing oneself for that event and enduring it."] [Footnote 3213: Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 363.357.

(Police reports on the deputies, Messidor 4, and following days.)--Vilate: "coups secretes de la Revolution du 9 et 10 Thermidor," a list designated by Barere .-- Denunciation by Lecointre.

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p.13.)] [Footnote 3214: Thibaudeau, I., 47.