SCENE XII

CkarlotU still hésitâtes; but Marais threats against the Girondins give her courage^ and she stabs him. He colis for help and dies,

1. 2307. Us vingt-deux^ a term used for the Girondins generally. The twenty-two chief Girondins had been arrested on Jane snd, but several had escaped.

L 2309. Dix mille^ only 3000 in fact.

L 2362. À moit 'help me.'

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1. 2360. Guadet, Marguerite-Elie Guadet, one of the leading Girondins, was bom 1758 and sent by Bordeaux to the L^;islative Assembly of 1791. He took a leading part in attacking Marat and Robespierre, and was one of the Twenty-two whose arrest was demanded on the 3ist May, 1793. He escaped to Caen, and then to Bordeaux, where he remained in concealment some time, but was captured with his friend Salles and guillotined July 17, 1794.

Barbaroux, Ponsard, representing Charlotte as in love with Barbaroux, makes Marat's threat against her lover give her courage to do the deed.