The first step towards construction must be to destroy the destroyers.

While we deliberate, your enemies act.

Better this very night to attack the handful of gensdarmes that guard them, than to confront the battalions they may raise to-morrow." "No," said Robespierre, who recoiled before the determined spirit of Payan; "I have a better and safer plan.

This is the 6th of Thermidor; on the 10th--on the 10th, the Convention go in a body to the Fete Decadaire.

A mob shall form; the canonniers, the troops of Henriot, the young pupils de l'Ecole de Mars, shall mix in the crowd.