laissait deviner, ' betrayed the présence of

9. Sobespierre . . . Santon . . . Harat The tbree obiefs of tbe party c&lled La Montagne. Robespierre, the gni ing spirit of the famous Club of the Jacobins, tlie eetalilislier of the Beign of Terror, perislied on the scaifolil on tlie 27th Jnly, 1794, at the âge of tliirity-flvo. Danton, tbe hero of the Clvb det Corddiers. was th" autlior nf tho massacres of St^tember. (This accusation, founded only on the most vague hearsay évidence, is now discarded. — Am. Ed.) Accnsed of aiming at a dlctatorsUip after the fall of the Girondins, he also perished on the scaffold, April 7th, 1791, also at the âge of thirty-five. Marat, tbe cruel démagogue, was the proprietor of the journal L'Ami du Peuple, in which he attacked with bitter véhémence the more moderate party, Let Girondin». He delnged France with blood, but paid the penalty of his atrocities with his life. He was assassinated in his bath by Charlotte Corday on the 13th of Jnly, 1793.