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- Robespierre.
- Danton.
- Marat.
Danton. Listen! There is only one thing imminent—the peril of the Republic. I only know one thing—to deliver France from the enemy. To accomplish that all means are fair. Let us be terrible and useful. Does the elephant stop to look where he sets his foot? We must crush the enemy.
Robespierre. I shall be very glad. The question is to know where the enemy is.
Danton. It is outside, and I have chased it there.
Rob. It is within, and I watch it.
Marat. Calm yourselves. It is everywhere, and you are lost.
Rob. A truce to generalities. I particularize. Here are facts. In fifteen days they will have an army of brigands numbering three hundred thousand men, and all Brittany will belong to the King of France.
Marat. That is to say, to the King of England.
Rob. No, to the King of France. It needs fifteen days to expel the stranger, and eighteen hundred years to eliminate monarchy.