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SCENE III

Barbarouxy Louvety Pétion and Buzoti four of the proscribed Girondin deputies, enter on the road to Caen, and enquire their way, This leads to a conversation^ in which Charlotte learns^ to her dismay, of the overthrow of the Girondins on the ^ist May and the indyune, Barbaroux describes the arrest of the twenty-two Girondins and the violence exerctsed against the Convention, Charlotte déclares that the Convention should hâve died rather than yield^ and proclcdms her ucU for the Girondins, They disclose themselves^ and she welcomes them to Caen and goes thither vfith them.

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