The people demanded her life, and they obtained it.
The very women who generally yelled around the carts were dumb, as this serene, angelic woman was carried through the streets. She died so peacefully, that many envied her.
CHAPTER LXIII.
ROBESPIERRE FALLS.
Atheism was now preached openly.
Robespierre pronounced in favor of an unknown deity, and in so magnificent a speech, that it may be said he gave back religion to France.
But his time had come.
What was his crime in the eyes of his accusers? Unpopularity.
One night he is addressing the Convention, when the uproar is so incessant, that in endeavoring to make himself heard, his voice fails him.