A Socialist History of the French Revolution by Jaurès Jean Abidor Mitchell Heller Henry

Author:Jaurès, Jean,Abidor, Mitchell,Heller, Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)

People are gathering at the gates of the prisons and they want to break them down. Most of the general councilors of Paris went to join the people wherever there was danger, but it was all in vain. Several prisoners have already been killed, and the situation is critical. The people are ready to march to the borders, but they feel a justifiable alarm concerning the intentions of a great number of persons who were arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary crimes.

Upon the proposal of Danton’s friend Basire,2 the Assembly immediately appointed twelve commissioners. But I fail to hear any cry of pity; I hear no protest from Thuriot.3 The Assembly seems to be discharging a painful formality in silence. As the final rays of the autumn sun fell, the commissioners helplessly witnessed the slaughter. Old Dussaulx,4 translator of Juvenal, returned to the Assembly:

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