And as you treat us as enemies, and our lives are in danger, I cannot see that we were to blame in doing so.

I deny that we are enemies of France, or that the gentleman who was with us was so either.

He did not obtain a place on the committee by fraud, for he was really the secretary of Monsieur Robespierre, and he could not refuse the post when it was offered to him.' "Then we thought it was time to speak, and the women cried out for mercy, and said how good she had been to the poor; and we men cried out too.

And then Carrier got into a passion, and said they were traitors and worthy of death, and that they should die.

And we shouted we would not have it, and broke into the Tribunal and surrounded mesdemoiselles, and then the guards rushed in and there was a fight.