[Footnote 288: The Assembly, while exonerating the king, condemned Bouillé and three _Guards du Corps_ who accompanied the king in his flight. It is impossible to refute the _logic_ with which Robespierre opposed this decision. "The measures you propose," he said, "can not but dishonor you. If you adopt them, I demand to declare myself the advocate of _all_ the accused. I will be the defender of the three _Guards du Corps_, the governess, even of Monsieur de Bouillé. By the principles of your committee, _no crime has been committed_. Where there is no crime _there can be no accomplices_. Gentlemen, to visit the weaker culprit when the greater one escapes is cowardice. You must condemn all or acquit all." To this no reply was made. The Assembly voted.] [Footnote 289: "The Republican party now began to appear. The struggle, which lay at first between the Assembly and the court, then between the Constitutionalists and the aristocrats, was now about to commence between the Constitutionalists and the Republicans."--_Mignet_, p. 104.] [Footnote 290: Villiaumé, p. 112; Desodoards, p. 42.] [Footnote 291: Hist. de la Rev. Fr., par Villiaumé, p. 112. "The Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and the Count d'Artois met at Pilnitz, where they made the famous declaration of the 27th of August, which, far from improving the condition of the king, would have imperiled him, had not the Assembly, in its wisdom, continued to follow out its new designs, regardless at once of the clamors of the multitude at home and of the foreign powers."--_Mignet_, p. 107.] [Footnote 292: Histoire des Montagnards, par Alphonse Esquiros, p. 49.] [Footnote 293: "It is easy to discern how many a hasty and tremulous hand has traced the witness of its fury or ignorance upon this document. Many were even unable to write. A circle of ink with a cross in the centre marks their anonymous adhesion to the petition. Some female names are to be seen, and numerous names of children are discernible from the inaccuracy of their hand, guided by another."--_History of the Girondists, Lamartine_, vol. i., p. 125. This document is still preserved in the archives of the municipality of Paris. On it may be read the names of Chaumette, Maillard, Hebert, Hauriot, Santerre, and others who subsequently became most conspicuous in deeds of cruelty and infamy.] [Footnote 294: History of the Girondists, Lamartine, vol. i., p. 126.]