Views of the Girondists.--Anecdote of Vergniaud.--The Girondists brought to Trial.--Suicide of Valazé.--Anguish of Desmoulins.--Fonfrede and Ducos.--Last Supper of the Girondists.--Their Execution.--The Duke of Orleans; his Execution.--Activity of the Guillotine.--Humane Legislation.--Testimony of Desodoards.--Anacharsis Cloots. --The New Era 353 CHAPTER XXXV. FALL OF THE HEBERTISTS AND OF THE DANTONISTS. Continued Persecution of the Girondists.--Robespierre opposes the Atheists.--Danton, Souberbielle, and Camille Desmoulins.--The _Vieux Cordelier_.--The Hebertists executed.--Danton assailed.--Interview between Danton and Robespierre.--Danton warned of his Peril.--Camille Desmoulins and others arrested.--Lucile, the Wife of Desmoulins. --Letters.--Execution of the Dantonists.--Arrest and Execution of Lucile. --Toulon recovered by Bonaparte 361 CHAPTER XXXVI. FALL OF ROBESPIERRE. Inexplicable Character of Robespierre.--Cécile Regnault.--Fête in honor of the Supreme Being.--Increase of Victims.--The Triumvirate.--Suspicions of Robespierre.--Struggle between Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety.--Conspiracy against Robespierre.--Session of the 27th of July. --Robespierre and his Friends arrested.--Efforts to save Robespierre. --Peril of the Convention.--Execution of Robespierre and his Confederates 375 CHAPTER XXXVII. THE THERMIDORIANS AND THE JACOBINS. The Reign of Committees.--The _Jeunesse Dorée_.--The Reaction.--Motion against Fouquier Tinville.--Apotheosis of Rousseau.--Battle of Fleurus. --Brutal Order of the Committee of Public Welfare.--Composition of the two Parties.--Speech of Billaud Varennes.--Speech of Légendre.--The Club-house of the Jacobins closed.--Victories of Pichegru.--Alliance between Holland and France.--Advance of Kleber.--Peace with Prussia. --Quiberon.--Riot in Lyons 389 CHAPTER XXXVIII. DISSOLUTION OF THE CONVENTION. Famine in Paris.--Strife between the Jeunesse Dorée and the Jacobins. --Riots.--Scene in the Convention.--War with the Allies.--A new Constitution.--Insurrection of the Sections.--Energy of General Bonaparte.--Discomfiture of the Sections.--Narrative of the Duchess of Abrantes.--Clemency of the Convention.--Its final Acts and Dissolution, and Establishment of the Directory 398 CHAPTER XXXIX. THE DIRECTORY.