Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . g, as a place of residence for theroyal family. Through the Communes influence,too, Lafayette, after having long been the objectof the bitterest attacks in the Jacobin Club, wasremoved from his command as head of the Na-tional Guards. We have a portrait of Lafayetteengraved under far other circumstances. It was the Commune which insisted on theformation of a separate Revolutionary Tribunalto deal exclusively with traitors. When theNational Assembly sought to modify the plan, itwas simply told that by midnight the measure Plate 118, p. 273. Massacre
Symbol and satire in the French Revolution . g, as a place of residence for theroyal family. Through the Communes influence,too, Lafayette, after having long been the objectof the bitterest attacks in the Jacobin Club, wasremoved from his command as head of the Na-tional Guards. We have a portrait of Lafayetteengraved under far other circumstances. It was the Commune which insisted on theformation of a separate Revolutionary Tribunalto deal exclusively with traitors. When theNational Assembly sought to modify the plan, itwas simply told that by midnight the measure Plate 118, p. 273. Massacre 275 must be passed or else the tocsin would be soundedand the citi-zens called toarms. Withinless than a weekafter the storm-ing of theTuileries thesessions of thetribunal hadbegun, and on-ly four dayslater the firstvictim hadperished bythe guillotinewhich was setup in the Placedu , what afine prop forLiberty! isthe inscriptionunder a repre-sentation of theguillotine^ thatvery likely wasissued at thisjuncture. GoodDr. Guillotin!. LAVERITABLE ORDiNAERE- HALEDON SOUTIENPOVULA LItiUKTE. ? ? : Plate 119. A representation of the guillotine asa fine prop for liberty. How proud he had been of his invention and Plate 119, above. 276 The French Revolution of the merciful promptitude with which it put anend to the misery of the condemned! With mymachine I cut off your head in the twinkling ofan eye and you dont notice it at all! The inex-tinguishable laughter of the members had brokenup the session for the rest of the day. But, alas,how many were now to have the experience thethought of which had caused them such merriment! Guillotins machine at the moment had beena mere curiosity. He had offered to decapitate afew sheep, or some bodies of dead men, in thepresence of the Assembly: but that body had notfelt equal to the experience. Many members wereopposed to capital punishment. As late as May,1791,^ even Robespierre had denounced it as acowardly abuse of the infin
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