. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . ect me here in this assemblyof aristocrats, concubines, and counter-revolution-aries, did you ? croaked Marat. Talma here stepped forward, and protested againstthese indecent and calumnious epithets addressed tohis friends, and their wives and sisters ; and, afteruttering more imprecations and threats against allpresent, Marat and his acolytes withdrew.* It is not easy to raise a laugh in an assembly whichhas just been scared by the sudden apparition ofthe apocalyptic figure of a Marat. Lou vet and hisfeUow-wits, however, set themselves heroically to
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . ect me here in this assemblyof aristocrats, concubines, and counter-revolution-aries, did you ? croaked Marat. Talma here stepped forward, and protested againstthese indecent and calumnious epithets addressed tohis friends, and their wives and sisters ; and, afteruttering more imprecations and threats against allpresent, Marat and his acolytes withdrew.* It is not easy to raise a laugh in an assembly whichhas just been scared by the sudden apparition ofthe apocalyptic figure of a Marat. Lou vet and hisfeUow-wits, however, set themselves heroically to thetask. There was a brilliant display of verbal fire-works, whilst the happily-inspired actor Dugazon,carefully fumigated the room with a censer. Next day Marat denounced the conspiracy, as hecalled it, both at the Jacobins and in the at the Generals house, he and his com-panions had been directed first to the Theatre de * La Vie du Gdn^ral Dumouriez, v. iii., pp. 223 et seq. ; Fusil(Louise,) Souvenirs dune actrice. 92. ■C. ^1! V, JKyi^VlU J V ;!/ A> Designed and engraved by Duplessis Berteauz. JEAN PAUL MARAT. To face page 92. LOUVET Varietes, which Dumouriez had just left, and then toTahnas. A number of carriages and brilliant illumina-tions, he said, indicated to us where this son ofMars was supping with the sons and daughters ofThalia; we found soldiers within and without: aftertraversing some chambers filled with pikemen,musketeers, dragoons, hussars—the warlike suiteof the General—we came to a spacious room full ofcompany, at the door of which was Santerre, com-mander of the Parisian Guards, performing thefunctions of a lackey or an usher. He announced mealoud, which I was sorry for, because it might havemade those persons disappear whom I should havewished to have seen ; but I did see some, whom it is ofuse to mention for the better comprehension of theoperations of the ruling party in the Convention,and to let the public know who are the Sta
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