THE HEAD OF THE JURY. He is.
FOUQUIER-TINVILLE. I demand the application of the law.
JUDGE. Then the Tribunal condemns Georges-Jacques Danton, Lucie-Simplice-Camille Desmoulins, Marie-Jean Hérault-Séchelles, Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, known as Fabre d'Eglantine, Pierre-Nicolas Philippeaux, and François-Joseph Westermann, to the death penalty. The Tribunal commands that this sentence be communicated to them between the two wickets of the Conciergerie by the clerk of the Tribunal, and that they be executed today, the sixteenth of Germinal, in the Place de la Révolution. [The People file out. Outside, the clamor becomes more and more indistinct.—SAINT-JUST, VADIER, and BILLAUD-VARENNE look at each other in silence.]
VADIER. The rotten colossus at last laid low! The Republic can now draw a free breath.
BILLAUD-VARENNE [looking at SAINT-JUST—fiercely] The Republic will never be free until her dictators have disappeared.
SAINT-JUST [looking straight at VADIER and BILLAUD-VARENNE] The Republic will never be pure until the vultures are no more.
VADIER [banteringly]. The Republic will never be free or pure until the Republic is no more!
SAINT-JUST. Ideas do not need men. Peoples pass away in order that God may live.