[271] "I once conversed with Robespierre at my father's house, in 1789. His features were mean, his complexion pale, his veins of a greenish hue."--MAD. DE STAËL, vol. ii., p. 140. "I had twice occasion to converse with Robespierre. He had a sinister expression of countenance, never looked you in the face, and had a continual and unpleasant winking of the eyes."--DUMONT, p. 202. [272] Mémoires de Barbaroux, p. 57. [273] Mignet, tom. i., p. 220; Garat, p. 174. [274] Lacretelle, tom. ix., pp. 292, 316. [275] "Un emploi si rigoureux répugnerait trop à mes principes philanthropiques."--LACRETELLE, tom. ix., p. 274. [276] "The carriage which conveyed the royal family to the Temple, was stopped on the Place Vendôme, in order that the King might see the fragments of the statue of Louis the Great."--LACRETELLE, tom. ix., p. 262. [277] "Nuit de terreur! prelude affreux de plusieurs jours de sang! nuit où une capitale perdue dans la mollesse, infectée des maximes de l'égoïsme philosophique, expia le sort honteux de s'être laissé asservir par tout ce que sa population offrait de plus abjèct et de plus criminel!"--LACRETELLE, tom. ix., p. 288. [278] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 296. [279] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 298. [280] Mignet, tom. i., p. 204; Thiers, tom. ii., p. 61; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 293. [281] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 314. [282] See _ante_, p. 92. [283] Mon Agonie de Trente-six Heures, p. 30. [284] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 8; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 325. [285] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 64. [286] Thiers, tom. iii., p. 127; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 348. [287] The books of the Hôtel de Ville preserve evidence of this fact. Billaud-Varennes appeared publicly among the assassins, and distributed the price of blood.--S.--"I am authorised," he said, "to offer to each of you twenty-four francs, which shall be instantly paid. Respectable citizens, continue your good work, and acquire new titles to the homage of your country! Let every thing on this great day be fitting the sovereignty of the people, who have committed their vengeance to your hands."--SICARD, p. 135; THIERS, tom. iii., p. 74. [288] Louvet's Memoirs, p. 73; Barbaroux, p. 57; Thiers, tom. iii., p. 77. [289] "The abbé would have been instantly murdered, had not a courageous watchmaker, of the name of Monnot, rushed between them, and staid the lance already raised to be plunged in his bosom."--THIERS, tom. iii., p. 71. [290] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 317 [291] Mémoires de Buzot, p. 82. [292] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 359. CHAPTER XI.