Session of Brumaire 20, on motion of Thuriot: "I move that the convention attends the temple of Reason to sing the hymn to Liberty."-- "The motion of Thuriot is decreed."] [Footnote 3222: Mercier, ibid., 99.

(Similar scenes in the churches of St.Eustache and St.Gervais.)] [Footnote 3223: Durand-Maillane, '"Memoires," 182 .-- Gregoire, "Memoires," II., 34.

On the 7th of November, 1793, in the great scene of the abjurations, Gregoire alone resisted, declaring: "I remain a bishop; I invoke freedom of worship." "Outcries burst forth to stifle my voice the pitch of which I raised proportionately....

A demoniac scene occurred, worthy of Milton....

I declare that in making this speech I thought I was pronouncing sentence of death on myself." For several days, emissaries were sent to him, either deputies or bandits, to try and make him retract.