Qui suis-je, moi qu’on accuse? Un esclave de la Liberte, un martyr1 vivant de la Republique.
“Discours de Robespierre, 8 Thermidor.”
(Who am I,— I whom they accuse? A slave of Liberty,— a living martyr for the Republic.)
It roars,— The River of Hell, whose first outbreak was chanted as the gush2 of a channel to Elysium. How burst into blossoming hopes fair hearts that had nourished themselves on the diamond dews of the rosy3 dawn, when Liberty came from the dark ocean, and the arms of decrepit4 Thraldom5 — Aurora6 from the bed of Tithon! Hopes! ye have ripened7 into fruit, and the fruit is gore8 and ashes! Beautiful Roland, eloquent9 Vergniaud, visionary Condorcet, high-hearted Malesherbes!— wits, philosophers, statesmen, patriots10, dreamers! behold11 the millennium12 for which ye dared and laboured!
I invoke13 the ghosts! Saturn14 hath devoured15 his children (“La Revolution est comme Saturne, elle devorera tous ses enfans.”— Vergniaud.), and lives alone,— I his true name of Moloch!
It is the Reign16 of Terror, with Robespierre the king. The struggles between the boa and the lion are past: the boa has consumed the lion, and is heavy with the gorge,— Danton has fallen, and Camille Desmoulins. Danton had said before his death, “The poltroon17 Robespierre,— I alone could have saved him.” From that hour, indeed, the blood of the dead giant clouded the craft of “Maximilien the Incorruptible,” as at last, amidst the din19 of the roused Convention, it choked his voice. (“Le sang de Danton t’etouffe!” (the blood of Danton chokes thee!) said Garnier de l’Aube, when on the fatal 9th of Thermidor, Robespierre gasped21 feebly forth22, “Pour la derniere fois, President des Assassins, je te demande la parole.” (For the last time, President of Assassins, I demand to speak.)) If, after that last sacrifice, essential, perhaps, to his safety, Robespierre had proclaimed the close of the Reign of Terror, and acted upon the mercy which Danton had begun to preach, he might have lived and died a monarch23. But the prisons continued to reek,— the glaive to fall; and Robespierre perceived not that his mobs were glutted24 to satiety25 with death, and the strongest excitement a chief could give would be a return from devils into men.
We are transported to a room in the house of Citizen Dupleix, the menuisier, in the month of July, 1794; or, in the calendar of the Revolutionists, it was the Thermidor of the Second Year of the Republic, One and Indivisible! Though the room was small, it was furnished and decorated with a minute and careful effort at elegance26 and refinement27. It seemed, indeed, the desire of the owner to avoid at once what was mean and rude, and what was luxurious28 and voluptuous29. It was a trim, orderly, precise grace that shaped the classic chairs, arranged the ample draperies, sank the frameless mirrors into the wall, placed bust30 and bronze on their pedestals, and filled up the niches31 here and there with well-bound books, filed regularly in their appointed ranks. An observer would have said, “This man wishes to imply to you,— I am not rich; I am not ostentatious; I am not luxurious; I am no indolent Sybarite, with couches of down, and pictures that provoke the sense; I am no haughty32 noble, with spacious33 halls, and galleries that awe34 the echo. But so much the greater is my merit if I disdain35 these excesses of the ease or the pride, since I love the elegant, and have a taste! Others may be simple and honest, from the very coarseness of their habits; if I, with so much refinement and delicacy36, am simple and honest,— reflect, and admire me!”
On the walls of this chamber37 hung many portraits, most of them represented but one face; on the formal pedestals were grouped many busts38, most of them sculptured but one head. In that small chamber Egotism sat supreme39, and made the Arts its looking-glasses. Erect40 in a chair, before a large table spread with letters, sat the original of bust and canvas, the owner of the apartment. He was alone, yet he sat erect, formal, stiff, precise, as if in his very home he was not at ease. His dress was in harmony with his posture41 and his chamber; it affected42 a neatness of its own,— foreign both to the sumptuous43 fashions of the deposed44 nobles, and the filthy45 ruggedness46 of the sans-culottes. Frizzled and coiffe, not a hair was out of order, not a speck47 lodged48 on the sleek49 surface of the blue coat, not a wrinkle crumpled50 the snowy vest, with its under-relief of delicate pink. At the first glance, you might have seen in that face nothing but the ill-favoured features of a sickly countenance51; at a second glance, you would have perceived that it had a power, a character of its own. The forehead, though low and compressed, was not without that appearance of thought and intelligence which, it may be observed, that breadth between the eyebrows52 almost invariably gives; the lips were firm and tightly drawn53 together, yet ever and anon they trembled, and writhed54 restlessly. The eyes, sullen55 and gloomy, were yet piercing, and full of a concentrated vigour56 that did not seem supported by the thin, feeble frame, or the green lividness of the hues57, which told of anxiety and disease.
Such was Maximilien Robespierre; such the chamber over the menuisier’s shop, whence issued the edicts that launched armies on their career of glory, and ordained58 an artificial conduit to carry off the blood that deluged59 the metropolis60 of the most martial61 people in the globe! Such was the man who had resigned a judicial62 appointment (the early object of his ambition) rather than violate his philanthropical principles by subscribing63 to the death of a single fellow-creature; such was the virgin64 enemy to capital punishments; and such, Butcher–Dictator now, was the man whose pure and rigid65 manners, whose incorruptible honesty, whose hatred66 of the excesses that tempt67 to love and wine, would, had he died five years earlier, have left him the model for prudent68 fathers and careful citizens to place before their sons. Such was the man who seemed to have no vice69, till circumstance, that hotbed, brought forth the two which, in ordinary times, lie ever the deepest and most latent in a man’s heart,— Cowardice70 and Envy. To one of these sources is to be traced every murder that master-fiend committed. His cowardice was of a peculiar71 and strange sort; for it was accompanied with the most unscrupulous and determined72 WILL,— a will that Napoleon reverenced73; a will of iron, and yet nerves of aspen. Mentally, he was a hero,— physically74, a dastard75. When the veriest shadow of danger threatened his person, the frame cowered76, but the will swept the danger to the slaughter-house. So there he sat, bolt upright,— his small, lean fingers clenched77 convulsively; his sullen eyes straining into space, their whites yellowed with streaks78 of corrupt18 blood; his ears literally79 moving to and fro, like the ignobler animals’, to catch every sound,— a Dionysius in his cave; but his posture decorous and collected, and every formal hair in its frizzled place.
“Yes, yes,” he said in a muttered tone, “I hear them; my good Jacobins are at their post on the stairs. Pity they swear so! I have a law against oaths,— the manners of the poor and virtuous80 people must be reformed. When all is safe, an example or two amongst those good Jacobins would make effect. Faithful fellows, how they love me! Hum!— what an oath was that!— they need not swear so loud,— upon the very staircase, too! It detracts from my reputation. Ha! steps!”
The soliloquist glanced at the opposite mirror, and took up a volume; he seemed absorbed in its contents, as a tall fellow, a bludgeon in his hand, a girdle adorned81 with pistols round his waist, opened the door, and announced two visitors. The one was a young man, said to resemble Robespierre in person, but of a far more decided82 and resolute83 expression of countenance. He entered first, and, looking over the volume in Robespierre’s hand, for the latter seemed still intent on his lecture, exclaimed,—
“What! Rousseau’s Heloise? A love-tale!”
“Dear Payan, it is not the love,— it is the philosophy that charms me. What noble sentiments!— what ardour of virtue84! If Jean Jacques had but lived to see this day!”
While the Dictator thus commented on his favourite author, whom in his orations85 he laboured hard to imitate, the second visitor was wheeled into the room in a chair. This man was also in what, to most, is the prime of life,— namely, about thirty-eight; but he was literally dead in the lower limbs: crippled, paralytic86, distorted, he was yet, as the time soon came to tell him,— a Hercules in Crime! But the sweetest of human smiles dwelt upon his lips; a beauty almost angelic characterised his features (“Figure d’ange,” says one of his contemporaries, in describing Couthon. The address, drawn up most probably by Payan (Thermidor 9), after the arrest of Robespierre, thus mentions his crippled colleague: “Couthon, ce citoyen vertueux, QUI N’A QUE LE COEUR ET LA TETE DE VIVANS, mais qui les a brulants de patriotisme” (Couthon, that virtuous citizen, who has but the head and the heart of the living, yet possesses these all on flame with patriotism87.)); an inexpressible aspect of kindness, and the resignation of suffering but cheerful benignity88, stole into the hearts of those who for the first time beheld89 him. With the most caressing90, silver, flute-like voice, Citizen Couthon saluted91 the admirer of Jean Jacques.
“Nay,— do not say that it is not the LOVE that attracts thee; it IS the love! but not the gross, sensual attachment92 of man for woman. No! the sublime93 affection for the whole human race, and indeed, for all that lives!”
And Citizen Couthon, bending down, fondled the little spaniel that he invariably carried in his bosom94, even to the Convention, as a vent20 for the exuberant95 sensibilities which overflowed96 his affectionate heart. (This tenderness for some pet animal was by no means peculiar to Couthon; it seems rather a common fashion with the gentle butchers of the Revolution. M. George Duval informs us (“Souvenirs de la Terreur,” volume iii page 183) that Chaumette had an aviary97, to which he devoted98 his harmless leisure; the murderous Fournier carried on his shoulders a pretty little squirrel, attached by a silver chain; Panis bestowed99 the superfluity of his affections upon two gold pheasants; and Marat, who would not abate100 one of the three hundred thousand heads he demanded, REARED DOVES! Apropos101 of the spaniel of Couthon, Duval gives us an amusing anecdote102 of Sergent, not one of the least relentless103 agents of the massacre104 of September. A lady came to implore105 his protection for one of her relations confined in the Abbaye. He scarcely deigned106 to speak to her. As she retired107 in despair, she trod by accident on the paw of his favourite spaniel. Sergent, turning round, enraged108 and furious, exclaimed, “MADAM, HAVE YOU NO HUMANITY?”)
“Yes, for all that lives,” repeated Robespierre, tenderly. “Good Couthon,— poor Couthon! Ah, the malice109 of men!— how we are misrepresented! To be calumniated110 as the executioners of our colleagues! Ah, it is THAT which pierces the heart! To be an object of terror to the enemies of our country,— THAT is noble; but to be an object of terror to the good, the patriotic111, to those one loves and reveres,— THAT is the most terrible of human tortures at least, to a susceptible112 and honest heart!” (Not to fatigue113 the reader with annotations114, I may here observe that nearly every sentiment ascribed in the text to Robespierre is to be found expressed in his various discourses115.)
“How I love to hear him!” ejaculated Couthon.
“Hem!” said Payan, with some impatience116. “But now to business!”
“Ah, to business!” said Robespierre, with a sinister117 glance from his bloodshot eyes.
“The time has come,” said Payan, “when the safety of the Republic demands a complete concentration of its power. These brawlers of the Comite du Salut Public can only destroy; they cannot construct. They hated you, Maximilien, from the moment you attempted to replace anarcy by institutions. How they mock at the festival which proclaimed the acknowledgment of a Supreme Being: they would have no ruler, even in heaven! Your clear and vigorous intellect saw that, having wrecked118 an old world, it became necessary to shape a new one. The first step towards construction must be to destroy the destroyers. While we deliberate, your enemies act. Better this very night to attack the handful of gensdarmes that guard them, than to confront the battalions119 they may raise tomorrow.”
“No,” said Robespierre, who recoiled120 before the determined spirit of Payan; “I have a better and safer plan. This is the 6th of Thermidor; on the 10th — on the 10th, the Convention go in a body to the Fete Decadaire. A mob shall form; the canonniers, the troops of Henriot, the young pupils de l’Ecole de Mars, shall mix in the crowd. Easy, then, to strike the conspirators121 whom we shall designate to our agents. On the same day, too, Fouquier and Dumas shall not rest; and a sufficient number of ‘the suspect’ to maintain salutary awe, and keep up the revolutionary excitement, shall perish by the glaive of the law. The 10th shall be the great day of action. Payan, of these last culprits, have you prepared a list?”
“It is here,” returned Payan, laconically122, presenting a paper.
Robespierre glanced over it rapidly. “Collot d’Herbois!— good! Barrere!— ay, it was Barrere who said, ‘Let us strike: the dead alone never return.’ (‘Frappons! il n’y a que les morts qui ne revient pas.’— Barrere.) Vadier, the savage123 jester!— good — good! Vadier of the Mountain. He has called me ‘Mahomet!’ Scelerat! blasphemer!”
“Mahomet is coming to the Mountain,” said Couthon, with his silvery accent, as he caressed124 his spaniel.
“But how is this? I do not see the name of Tallien? Tallien,— I hate that man; that is,” said Robespierre, correcting himself with the hypocrisy125 or self-deceit which those who formed the council of this phrase-monger exhibited habitually126, even among themselves,—“that is, Virtue and our Country hate him! There is no man in the whole Convention who inspires me with the same horror as Tallien. Couthon, I see a thousand Dantons where Tallien sits!”
“Tallien has the only head that belongs to this deformed127 body,” said Payan, whose ferocity and crime, like those of St. Just, were not unaccompanied by talents of no common order. “Were it not better to draw away the head, to win, to buy him, for the time, and dispose of him better when left alone? He may hate YOU, but he loves MONEY!”
“No,” said Robespierre, writing down the name of Jean Lambert Tallien, with a slow hand that shaped each letter with stern distinctness; “that one head IS MY NECESSITY!”
“I have a SMALL list here,” said Couthon, sweetly,—“a VERY small list. You are dealing128 with the Mountain; it is necessary to make a few examples in the Plain. These moderates are as straws which follow the wind. They turned against us yesterday in the Convention. A little terror will correct the weathercocks. Poor creatures! I owe them no ill-will; I could weep for them. But before all, la chere patrie!”
The terrible glance of Robespierre devoured the list which the man of sensibility submitted to him. “Ah, these are well chosen; men not of mark enough to be regretted, which is the best policy with the relics129 of that party; some foreigners too,— yes, THEY have no parents in Paris. These wives and parents are beginning to plead against us. Their complaints demoralise the guillotine!”
“Couthon is right,” said Payan; “MY list contains those whom it will be safer to despatch130 en masse in the crowd assembled at the Fete. HIS list selects those whom we may prudently131 consign132 to the law. Shall it not be signed at once?”
“It IS signed,” said Robespierre, formally replacing his pen upon the inkstand. “Now to more important matters. These deaths will create no excitement; but Collot d’Herbois, Bourdon De l’Oise, Tallien,” the last name Robespierre gasped as he pronounced, “THEY are the heads of parties. This is life or death to us as well as them.”
“Their heads are the footstools to your curule chair,” said Payan, in a half whisper. “There is no danger if we are bold. Judges, juries, all have been your selection. You seize with one hand the army, with the other, the law. Your voice yet commands the people —”
“The poor and virtuous people,” murmured Robespierre.
“And even,” continued Payan, “if our design at the Fete fail us, we must not shrink from the resources still at our command. Reflect! Henriot, the general of the Parisian army, furnishes you with troops to arrest; the Jacobin Club with a public to approve; inexorable Dumas with judges who never acquit133. We must be bold!”
“And we ARE bold,” exclaimed Robespierre, with sudden passion, and striking his hand on the table as he rose, with his crest134 erect, as a serpent in the act to strike. “In seeing the multitude of vices135 that the revolutionary torrent136 mingles137 with civic138 virtues139, I tremble to be sullied in the eyes of posterity140 by the impure141 neighbourhood of these perverse142 men who thrust themselves among the sincere defenders143 of humanity. What!— they think to divide the country like a booty! I thank them for their hatred to all that is virtuous and worthy144! These men,”— and he grasped the list of Payan in his hand,—“these!— not WE— have drawn the line of demarcation between themselves and the lovers of France!”
“True, we must reign alone!” muttered Payan; “in other words, the state needs unity145 of will;” working, with his strong practical mind, the corollary from the logic146 of his word-compelling colleague.
“I will go to the Convention,” continued Robespierre. “I have absented myself too long,— lest I might seem to overawe the Republic that I have created. Away with such scruples147! I will prepare the people! I will blast the traitors148 with a look!”
He spoke149 with the terrible firmness of the orator150 that had never failed,— of the moral will that marched like a warrior151 on the cannon152. At that instant he was interrupted; a letter was brought to him: he opened it,— his face fell, he shook from limb to limb; it was one of the anonymous153 warnings by which the hate and revenge of those yet left alive to threaten tortured the death-giver.
“Thou art smeared,” ran the lines, “with the best blood of France. Read thy sentence! I await the hour when the people shall knell154 thee to the doomsman. If my hope deceive me, if deferred156 too long,— hearken, read! This hand, which thine eyes shall search in vain to discover, shall pierce thy heart. I see thee every day,— I am with thee every day. At each hour my arm rises against thy breast. Wretch157! live yet awhile, though but for few and miserable158 days — live to think of me; sleep to dream of me! Thy terror and thy thought of me are the heralds159 of thy doom155. Adieu! this day itself I go forth to riot on thy fears!” (See “Papiers inedits trouves chez Robespierre,” etc., volume ii. page 155. (No. lx.))
“Your lists are not full enough!” said the tyrant160, with a hollow voice, as the paper dropped from his trembling hand. “Give them to me!— give them to me! Think again, think again! Barrere is right — right! ‘Frappons! il n’y a que les morts qui ne revient pas!’”
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