à voix haute, aloud

3. Miserere. The condemned ones repeated the 5ist Psalm, which begins with the word " miserere " in the Latin version.

Page 9, — 1. Comité de salut public, trans., the Committee of public safety. This committee, which was once made up of Robespierre, Marat and Danton, and to which the safety of the state was intrusted, was vested with the most arbitrary power, such as the arrest of any people they might choose to suppress.