Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426
Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852
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y one of the
narrow streets which led to the rooms of the National Assembly, or
Convention, as the legislative body was called after the deposition of
Louis XVI. The house so occupied, was situated on a spot now covered
by the Rue Rivoli, opposite the gardens of the Tuileries. In
connection with it, were several apartments used by committees; and
there, by the leading members of the House, the actual business of the
nation was for a long time conducted. It was by the part he played in
one of these formidable committees, that of 'Public Safety'--more
properly, public insecurity--that he becomes chargeable with his
manifold crimes. For the commission of these atrocities, however, he
held himself to be entirely excused; and how he could possibly
entertain any such notion, remains for us to notice.
The action of the Revolution was in the hands of three parties, into which the Convention was divided--namely, the Montagnards, the Girondists, and the Plaine. The last mentioned were a comparatively harmless set of
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