There was a man called Chaumette, scruffy and sharp-featured. He hated the aristocrats and he also hated prostitutes, and the two things used to get quite confused in his mind.

I tell you, dear Citizen Camille-it's not the deaths I can't stand. It's the judgements, the judgements in the courtroom.

Again, take someone who's crippled or deformed; they can't be tied to the plank without a lot of sweat and heaving, and then the crowds {who can't see much anyway} get bored and start hissing and...

I think back to those days after the Bastille fell, the Mercure Nationale run from the back of the shop, that little Louise sticking her well-bred nose in the air and flouncing off to bawl out their...

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at...

May 29, the Central Committee of the Sections goes into "permanent session" - what a fine, crisis-ridden sound it has, that term!

At the top of the Queen's Staircase at the Tuileries, there is a series of communicating chambers, crowded every day with clerks, secretaries, messengers, with army officers and purveyors, officials...

The Robespierre women {as one tended to think of them now} were all on display. Madame looked actively, rather intimidatingly benevolent; it was her aim in life to find a Jacobin who was hungry, then...

But just as everything was going along politely, quietly and wonderfully - in poured Citizen Danton and his crew.

The Revolution is your bride," he said. "As the Church is the Bride of Christ.

God knows," Charpentier said, "I like the present scheme of things very little, but I dread to think what will happen if the conduct of reform falls into hands like yours.""Reform?" Camille said. "I'm...

I daresay something will happen, between now and '91, to make your fortunes look up.

The year now is 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light...

So, Lucile thinks, Gabrielle has the prospect of escape; but in her apartment at the rue des Cordeliers, she sits still and silent, in the conscious postures of pregnant women. Sometimes she cries;...

This may interest you. A letter from my dear cousin Fouquier-Tinville." Camille cast an eye over his relative's best handwriting....

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public...

Ask Robespierre. Ask the man with the conscience which is more important, your friend or your country- ask him how he weighs an individual in the scheme of things. Ask him which comes first, his old...

The door was flung open. Maurice Duplay filled it; energetic master, shirt- sleeves rolled up. He threw out his arms, the good Jacobin Duplay, and formed a sentence totally original, something which...

You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing...

I do no damage. This is damage, this."He picked up a paper from Camille's desk. "I can't read your writing, but I take it the general tenor is that Brissot should go and hang himself.

The year is now 1774. Poseurs or not, it is time to grow up. It is time to enter the public realm, the world of public acts and public attitudes. Everything that happens now will happen in the light...

I can remember the days,' Mirabeau said, 'when we didn't have public opinion. No one had ever heard of such a thing.

peroration. He had left his opponents with nothing to say and nowhere to

Go back to jump better.

If your going to be ugly it is well to be whole-hearted about it, put some effort in. Georges turned heads.

And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear.

"Maximilien, try to learn this truth," said Father Herivaux, "for the most part they are lazy and will evaluate you according to the consideration that you have of yourself. So make sure it is high...

distraught. It seems he claims

With France as she is, poor and unarmed, war means defeat. Defeat means either a military dictator who will salvage what he can and set up a new tyranny, or it means a total collapse and the return of...

I know what you want. One month after the ascension of Philippe the Gullible, M. Laclos found in a gutter, deceased. Blamed on a traffic accident. Two months after, King Philippe found in a gutter,...