SCENE I

Citizens of Paris, witk women and children, are strolling in the gardens of the Palais Égalité (former Palais Royal), The children and their nurses stng and dance, Citizens then meet and talk on public affairSf speaking of the advance of the Girondin troops on Paris, One of the citizens déclares that the Girondins ought to hâve been massacred, ffegets up on a chair and harangues the rest, denouncing the rich and the Girondins, He recuis extrcuts from Marais articles. At this moment Charlotte comes in and hears his speech, His violence disgusts her^ and she enters a cutler's shop^ resolved to buy the knife to slay Marat with, The jacobin speaker leads off some of his hearers to organize a riot against the forestallers of grain, Others hang back^ saying that Robespierre condemns rioting.

l64 CHARLOTTE CORDAY.

Stas^e directions.

du palais Égalité^ formerly ihe Palais Royal, and owned by the Duke of Orléans, who, however, had become a Republican, voted for the death of his cousin Louis XVI. and taken the name of Philippe Egalité. A bazaar adjoins the palace proper.

Stage directions.

Nous nHrons plus au bois, A familiar old French tune.

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L 1060. le mois d'maù In French popular songs the ^mute is oflen clipped, even at the présent time.