. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. fter her, twenty-one of the Girondistleaders were executed, and many others of unquestioned zealfor a moderate republic followed them. A RevolutionaryTribunal was set up, before which each day a certain numberof wretches were dragged from the prisons and condemned(or in exceptional cases acquitted) after farcically irregulartrials. From October, 1793, to the end of July, 1794, Terror wasthe Order of the Day, in Paris; and similar awful tribunalskept up their work in many of the provincial towns. Under 1 See section 238. 2 Partis
. A history of mediaeval and modern Europe for secondary schools. fter her, twenty-one of the Girondistleaders were executed, and many others of unquestioned zealfor a moderate republic followed them. A RevolutionaryTribunal was set up, before which each day a certain numberof wretches were dragged from the prisons and condemned(or in exceptional cases acquitted) after farcically irregulartrials. From October, 1793, to the end of July, 1794, Terror wasthe Order of the Day, in Paris; and similar awful tribunalskept up their work in many of the provincial towns. Under 1 See section 238. 2 Partisans of the 1791 constitution. 412 HISTORY OF EUROPE the guillotineJ perished several thousands of the best lives inFrance; for it was the intelligent and well-to-do who naturallyawakened the most suspicion. O Liberty, what crimes arecommitted in thy name! so cried the high-minded MadameRoland, an ardent Republican and Girondist when she stoodto take her place at the guillotine. Yet all the while theJacobin chiefs and many of their satellites in the Parisian mob. THE GUILLOTINE AT WORKNote the statue of liberty opposite the instrument. (After an anony-mous engraving) believed quite honestly that by this remorseless policy theywere leading France to happiness. 240. The revolts against the Jacobins. The fearful energyof the Jacobins will be better understood when it is realizedthat, besides the foreign war, at the same time they had to fightdesperate rebellions within France. Many Girondist deputiesdid not submit to arrest with their fellows, but escaped to their 1 The guillotine was a mechanical device invented at this time to take theplace of the old headsmans block and axe. Despite the gruesome mutilation ofthe victim, it was an extremely humane and painless instrument. The Repub-lican Razor, it was called by the calloused creatures who daily watched thepublic butcheries. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION 413 homes in the departments and organized revolts. The Jacobinshad to stamp out upri
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