. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . Designed and engraved by Duplessis Berteauz. JEROME PETION. To iace page_ 170. LOUVET his feet, for he had many of the gifts of a great was impetuous, a master of fiery eloquence, buteven in the most heated debates he never lost controlof his temper, whilst he had a rare skill in arousingthe nervous irritability of his opponents. His greatstrength lay in a power of laying bare hidden motives,of revealing moral cowardice masquerading as worldlywisdom, and of tearing the veil from the secret vanitiesand infirmities which lurked almost unsusp
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . Designed and engraved by Duplessis Berteauz. JEROME PETION. To iace page_ 170. LOUVET his feet, for he had many of the gifts of a great was impetuous, a master of fiery eloquence, buteven in the most heated debates he never lost controlof his temper, whilst he had a rare skill in arousingthe nervous irritability of his opponents. His greatstrength lay in a power of laying bare hidden motives,of revealing moral cowardice masquerading as worldlywisdom, and of tearing the veil from the secret vanitiesand infirmities which lurked almost unsuspected inthe souls of his enemies. Guadet concluded one of his ablest and mostrancorous speeches by reading aloud from the tribunean address, signed by Marat, exhorting the peopleto rise in arms against the Convention, as a centre ofcounter-revolution. The stroke was a clever when the matter was thus formally brought beforethe Assembly, even Marats own party were forcedto make some show of condemning such flagrantaudacity. Several
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