. Robespierre and the French revolution. ccording toAulard, he addressed the Convention not morethan twenty times during the period of his mem-bership, yet on every occasion his words were ofthe profoundest importance. He was possessedof remarkable executive and organizing ability. His personal beauty was striking. Desmou-lins described his face as apocalyptic. Hisfeatures were regular and finely cut. He hadlarge, full, deep blue eyes, which were solemn inexpression except when lighted up in the anima-tion of speech. His hair almost reached hisshoulders, and was parted In the centre. Hedressed
. Robespierre and the French revolution. ccording toAulard, he addressed the Convention not morethan twenty times during the period of his mem-bership, yet on every occasion his words were ofthe profoundest importance. He was possessedof remarkable executive and organizing ability. His personal beauty was striking. Desmou-lins described his face as apocalyptic. Hisfeatures were regular and finely cut. He hadlarge, full, deep blue eyes, which were solemn inexpression except when lighted up in the anima-tion of speech. His hair almost reached hisshoulders, and was parted In the centre. Hedressed with care, wore a blue coat, with a stand-ing collar and two rows of brass buttons, cuffs,frills, and buckled shoes. In his most sarcastic vein but in a playfulmood, Camille, upon one occasion in referring toSt. Just, said: He looks upon his head as thecorner stone of the republic and carries it as ifit were the holy sacrament. And I will makehim, replied St. Just with a snarl, carry hislike St. Denis, alluding to the legend of that296. ST. JUSTFrom an engraving in the collection of William J. Latta, Esq. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION saint having walked from Paris to the grave car-rying his head under his arm. This witticism ofCamille so wounded the vanity and the self-esteem of St. Just that the latter never forgotnor forgave the insult, and called the accountsettled only when his victim went to the scaffold. He took life very seriously and was as sombreand as gloomy as a monk in Lent. Young, hand-some, and intelligent, he was lionized while inStrasbourg; but temptations could not inducehim to abandon his virtue. Under circumstancesthat might have seduced even a stronger man, hedisplayed the spirit of a Scipio. He was a fanatic, a bigot in his devotion tothe Revolution; to him it was a dogma, and nosympathy nor sentiment of mercy could influencehim in the pursuit of its enemies. He declared: The vessel of the Revolution can arrive in portonly on a sea reddened with torrents of blood
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