PHILIPPEAUX. My nation is humanity.
JUDGE. Did those you pitied, the Royalists who were crushed by Rossignol, think of humanity?
PHILIPPEAUX. There is no excuse for crime.
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE. Victory is.
PHILIPPEAUX. I accuse you.
CAMILLE. Before all the people, I denounce these infamies!
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE [with a shrug]. Let the people judge. [The People are divided: many applaud FOUQUIER-TINVILLE and converse among themselves.]
DANTON [aside to DESMOULINS]. Keep your mouth shut! You're throwing stones in my garden.
CAMILLE [astounded]. How is that?
DANTON. I said what was necessary.