, 408. "Here, I have to open my
heart."--XXXII., 475-478, the concluding part.]

[Footnote 31101: Hamel: "Histoire de Robespierre," I., 34-76. An
attorney at 23, a member of the Rosati club at Arras at 24, a member of
the Arras Academy at 25. The Royal Society of Metz awarded him a
second prize for his discourse against the prejudice which regards the
relatives of condemned criminals as infamous. His eulogy of Gresset is
not crowned by the Amiens Academy. He reads before the Academy of Arras
a discourse against the civil incapacities of illegitimate children,
and then another on reforms in criminal jurisprudence. In 1789, he is
president of the Arras Academy, and publishes an eulogy of Dupaty and an
address to the people from Artois on the qualities necessary for future
deputies.]

[Footnote 31102: See his eulogy of Rousseau in the speech of May 7,
1794. (Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 369.--Garat, 85. "I hoped that his
selection of Rousseau for a model of style and the constant reading of
his works would exert some good influence on his character."]

[Footnote 31103: Fievee, "correspondance" (introduction). Fievee, who
heard him at the Jacobin Club, said that he resembled a "tailor of the
ancient regime." La Reeveillere-Lepeaux, '"Memoires."--Buchez et Roux,
XXXIV., 94.--Malouet, "Memoires," II., 135. (Session of May 31, 1791,
after the delivery of Abbe Raynal's address.) "This is the first and
only time I found Robespierre clear and even eloquent.... He spun
out his opening phrases as usual, which contained the spirit of his
discourse, and which, in spite of his accustomed rigmarole, produced the
effect he intended."]

[Footnote 31104: Courrier de Provence, III., No. 52, (Oct. 7 and 8,
1789).--Buchez et Roux, VI., 372. (Session of July 10, 1790.) Another
similar blunder was committed by him on the occasion of an American
deputation. The president had made his response, which was "unanimously
applauded." Robespierre wanted to have his say notwithstanding the
objections of the Assembly, impatient at his verbiage, and which finally
put him down. Amidst the laughter, "M. l'Abbe Maury demands ironically
the printing of M. Robespierre's discourse."]

[Footnote 31105: L. Villiers, 2.]

[Footnote 31106: Cf. his principal speeches in the constituent
Assembly;--against martial law; against the veto, even suspensive;
against the qualification of the silver marc and in favor of universal
suffrage; in favor of admitting into the N