JUDGE. Is Lucie-Simplice-Camille Desmoulins, solicitor, Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic? THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is. JUDGE. Is Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, known as Fabre d'Eglantine, Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic? THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is. JUDGE. Is Pierre-Nicolas Philippeaux, former judge, and Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic? THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is. JUDGE. Is Marie-Jean Hérault-Séchelles, attorney general, and Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic? THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is. JUDGE. Is Francis-Joseph Westermann, brigadier-general, guilty of conspiring against the Republic? THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is. FOUQUIER-TINVILLE. I demand the application of the law. JUDGE. Then the Tribunal condemns Georges-Jacques Danton, Lucie-Simplice-Camille Desmoulins, Marie-Jean Hérault-Séchelles, Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, known as Fabre d'Eglantine, Pierre-Nicolas Philippeaux, and François-Joseph Westermann, to the death penalty. The Tribunal commands that this sentence be communicated to them between the two wickets of the _Conciergerie_ by the clerk of the Tribunal, and that they be executed today, the sixteenth of Germinal, in the Place de la Révolution. [_The People file out. Outside, the clamor becomes more and more indistinct._--SAINT-JUST, VADIER, _and_ BILLAUD-VARENNE _look at each other in silence_.] VADIER. The rotten colossus at last laid low! The Republic can now draw a free breath. BILLAUD-VARENNE [_looking at_ SAINT-JUST--_fiercely_] The Republic will never be free until her dictators have disappeared. SAINT-JUST [_looking straight at_ VADIER _and_ BILLAUD-VARENNE] The Republic will never be pure until the vultures are no more. VADIER [_banteringly_]. The Republic will never be free or pure until the Republic is no more! SAINT-JUST. Ideas do not need men. Peoples pass away in order that God may live. END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Fourteenth of July and Danton, by Romain Rolland