[230] "I never," says Madame de la Rochejaquelein, "heard any thing more impressive and terrible than their songs."
[231] Espremenil suffered by the guillotine in June, 1793; but Pétion, becoming at that time an object of suspicion to Robespierre, took refuge in the department of the Calvados, where he is supposed to have perished with hunger; his body being found in a field half devoured by wolves.
[232] See Annual Register, vol. xxxiv., p. 229.
[233] Thiers, tom. ii., p. 145.
[234] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 172.
[235] "The question of abdication was discussed with a degree of frenzy. Such of the deputies as opposed the motion were abused, ill-treated, and surrounded by assassins. They had a battle to fight at every step they took; and at length they did not dare to sleep in their houses."—Montjoie.
[236] Thus imitated by the dramatist Lee, from the historian Davila:—
"Have you not heard—the King, preventing day,
Received the guards within the city gates;
The jolly Swisses marching to their pipes,
The crowd stood gaping heedless and amazed,
Shrunk to their shops, and left the passage free."—S.
[237] M. de Staël, tom. ii., p. 59.
[238] When they were, in similar circumstances, maltreated by the national guard.—See ante, p. [119].—S.