Food for thought for the crowned charlatans (1793)… let an impure blood soak our fields.O
Food for thought for the crowned charlatans(1793)
… let an impure blood soak our fields.
On Monday, 21 January 1793, at quarter past ten o’clock in the morning on the Place de la Révolution, the tyrant, formerly called Louis XVI, fell under the blade of the Laws. This great act of justice has distressed the Aristocracy, annihilated the Royal superstition, and the created the republic. It confers a great character on the National Convention and renders it worthy of the trust of the French… it was in vain that an audacious faction and insidious orators exhausted all resources of calumny, of charlatanism and of delaying tactics ; the courage of the republicans triumphed: the majority of the Convention remained unwavering in its principles, and the genius of intrigue ceded to the genius of Liberty and to the Ascendancy of virtue.
Extract from the 3rd [issue of] Lettres de Maximilien Robespierre à ses commetans.
