Pëion. Cf. note, p

1. 39. le martyre de tribune de Lanjuinais. Lanjuinais, Jean- Denis (1753-1826), lawyer, professor, and member of the Institut. Deputy for the Tiers-État at the meeting of the States-General,he became one of the founders of the Breton Club, took the oath of the Tennis Court, demanded the absolute suppression of nobiUty

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as a social distinction, and showed himself the inveterate enemy of the refractory priests. As member of the Convention, he was the embittered opponent of the Montagne. He escaped the fate of most of his party by remaining hidden in a bam at Rennes for eighteen months. He lived to hold office under Napoléon, though he had resented the latter's assumption of the Impérial title, and he himself was created a peer of France under Louis XVIII.

His famé was due chiefly to his dauntless bearing when attacked on June 2, 1793, by the butcher Legendre. The latter, infuriated by Lanjuinais' attacks upon the Commune, held a pistol to his throat, crying : ' Descends de la tribune, ou je vais t' assommer.' Lanjuinais replied : ' Fais décréter que je suis bœuf, et tu m'assommeras.' Cf. Aulard, Les Orateurs de la Convention et de la Législative, Vol. II, p. 90.

Page 80. 1.2. la langue de T orateur douée sur les rostres. Cicero, having attacked Mark Antony with great véhémence in his Phihppic orations, was, on the formation of the triumvirate of Octavian, Antony, and Lepidus, proscribed and put to death. His head and hands were eut off, and by command of Antony nailed to the rostra.