Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . We have a repre-sentation, too, of the Martyrs of Liberty^ whosedeaths are to be avenged: Lepelletier, who wasmurdered at the time of Louis XVIs execution;Marat, and Chalier, who was put to death fourdays after Marat by adherents of the Girondists,in the town of Lyons. In the background on theleft one sees the Bastile with the inevitable Livefree or die, on the right the Pantheon, wherethese three are to be received among Francesgreat men. On July 27th Robespierre became a member ofthe Committee of Public Safety, and the series ofsevere measures beg
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . We have a repre-sentation, too, of the Martyrs of Liberty^ whosedeaths are to be avenged: Lepelletier, who wasmurdered at the time of Louis XVIs execution;Marat, and Chalier, who was put to death fourdays after Marat by adherents of the Girondists,in the town of Lyons. In the background on theleft one sees the Bastile with the inevitable Livefree or die, on the right the Pantheon, wherethese three are to be received among Francesgreat men. On July 27th Robespierre became a member ofthe Committee of Public Safety, and the series ofsevere measures began that were to send so manyhundreds to the guillotine merely because of theirpolitical opinions and that made a pure mockery Plate 158, p. 372. » Plate 159, p. 373. 371 7yT2 The French Revolution of all legal forms. On July 30th the RevolutionaryTribunal was divided into two sections, thus doubl-ing its activity. A few days later it was redividedinto four. We now begin to hear frequently ofa new class of criminals, the suspects. We have. Plate 158. An emblem of the Reign of Terror. There is tobe no mean between Liberty and Death. harangues like this in the Convention: No morequarter, no more mercy for traitors—(simultan-eous cries from all parts of the hall of No! No!)If we do not get ahead of them they will getahead of us. Let us cast between them and usthe barrier of Eternity . . The day of justiceand of wrath has come. Billaud-Varennes moved the establishment of a
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