. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . th hisface convulsed with iury, Danton rushed to thetribune. He demanded that the special commissionappointed to inquire into the conspiracy of Dumouriezshould also take proceedings against those who hadplotted against the indivisibility of the Republicand those who had attempted to save the King andto ruin liberty. No more peace or truce, he thundered, betweenyou and us. I have entrenched myself in the citadelof reason. I will sally out with the cannon of truth,and I will grind to powder the villains who have daredto accuse me. That awful voice must
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . th hisface convulsed with iury, Danton rushed to thetribune. He demanded that the special commissionappointed to inquire into the conspiracy of Dumouriezshould also take proceedings against those who hadplotted against the indivisibility of the Republicand those who had attempted to save the King andto ruin liberty. No more peace or truce, he thundered, betweenyou and us. I have entrenched myself in the citadelof reason. I will sally out with the cannon of truth,and I will grind to powder the villains who have daredto accuse me. That awful voice must have struckterror to the hearts of the bravest. It was at once decreed that the existing Committeeof Public Safet\^ should be replaced by a new com-mittee of the same name (composed of only ninemembers), which should have supreme executivepower. The elected members all belonged to theMountain. Two days later, on April 8th, the Convention ad-mitted to its bar a deputation from the Section ofBon Conseil, demanding the arrest of Brissot, i66. From an engraving by Levachcz. tk^ ^^n,^> ^:L
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