24th.) "N--: I know a member of the convention, who heard Marat say that, to ensure public tranquility, two hundred and seventy thousand heads more should fall." Vermont: "I declare that Marat made that statement in my presence."] Marat: "Well, I did say so; that's my opinion and I say it again."-- Up to the last he advocates surgical operations.

(No.

for July 12, 1793, the eve of his death.) Observe what he says on the anti-revolutionaries.
"To prevent them from entering into any new military body I had proposed at that time, as an indispensable prudent measure, cutting off their ears, or rather their thumbs." He likewise had his imitators.

(Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 186, Session of the Convention, April 4, 1796.) Deputies from the popular club of Cette "regret that they had not followed his advice and cut off three hundred thousand heads."] [Footnote 3143: Danton never wrote or printed a speech.

"I am no writer," he says.