SCENE II

Camille Desmoulins strolls by wiih his friend Philippeaux, He protests against Danton being placed below Marat and Robespierre, and défends him against the charge of being lukewarm, He is asked who he is, and discloses his name^ but finds that he shares in the unpopularity of Danton, The citizens départ, and the children pass again singing.

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Camille Desmoulins was bom at Guise in 1760, and. was a schoolfellow of Robespierre. He became a barrister; and in 1789, when Louis XVI. dismissed Necker and the popular ministry, he harangued the people in the garden of the Palais- Royal, took a green leaf as a cockade, and urged the Parisians to attack the Bastille. During the Révolution he founded a journal, Les Révolutions de France et de Brabant, He was a member of the Cordeliers Club, and a friend of Danton and Robespierre. His attack on the Girondins greatlv damaged them.

l68 CHARLOTTE CORDAY.

In 1793 he began his Vieux Corde/ter, a journal of great power, in which he advocated mercy and attacked the Terror. He was arrested, tried and executed with Danton in April, 1 794.

Philippeaux or Philipeaux (Pierre). He was a member of the Convention, and at first, like Camille Desmoulins, an extrême revolutionary, but protesting against the Terror he was proscribed with Danton's party.

en se donnant le bras^ *ann in arm.*

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L 1690. sans-culotte, the Republicans were so called from wearing not the culotte or knee-breeches of the gentleman, but the trousers of the workman. Except in court-dress, we are now ail * sans-culottes.'