After the information of the events of the 5th and 6th October, I would have immolated every judge on the pile; after the massacre of the Champ-de-Mars, had I but had 2000 men, animated with the same resentment as myself, I would have gone at their head to stab La Fayette in the midst of his battalion of brigands, burnt the king in his palace, and cut the throats of our atrocious representatives on their very seats!' Robespierre listened to me with affright, turned pale, and was for a long time silent.

I left him.

I had seen an honest man, but not a man of the state." Thus the wretch had excited horror in the fanatic: Robespierre had obtained Marat's pity.
IV.
The first struggle between the Jacobins and the Girondists gave the skilful Dumouriez a double _point d'appui_ for his policy.

The enmity of Roland, Claviere, and Servan no longer disturbed him in council.

He balanced their influence by his alliance with their enemies.