JUDGE. It is not your place to accuse; you are here to answer your accusers.
CAMILLE. Very well, I accuse myself, if you like, of not having always thought as I think today. For too long did I believe in hatred; the heat of battle led me on, and I have committed too many crimes; I stirred up vengeance, and more than once the sword was drawn as a result of my writings. Innocent people were dragged here on my advice. This is my crime, my real crime, and you are my partners in it. This is the crime I am today expiating.
JUDGE. Whom are you referring to?
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE. Whose death do you regret?
PHILIPPEAUX. Don't answer, Desmoulins!
FABRE D'EGLANTINE. It's a trap. Take care!
DANTON. Swallow your tongue, my boy!
CAMILLE. I refer to the Girondins. [The People murmur, and DAVID says: "He confesses!"]
JUDGE. The prisoner confesses his implication in the Brissotist conspiracies.
CAMILLE [with a shrug]. It was my Brissot dévoilé which condemned the Brissotists.