n Capet and his wife. They ought to be punished a thousand times
over.... The popular hatred of Hebert is at its height... . The people
cannot forgive Hebert for having deceived them.... Popular rejoicings
were universal on seeing the conspirators led to the scaffold."]

[Footnote 3261: Moniteur, XXIV., 53. (Session of Germinal 2, year III.)
Words of Prieur de la Cote-d'Or: "The first quarrel that occurred in
the Committee was between Saint-Just and Carnot; the latter says to
the former, 'I see that you and Robespierre are after a
dictatorship.'"--Ibid., 74. Levasseur makes a similar statement.-Ibid.,
570. (Session of Germinal 2, year III., words of Carnot): "I had a right
to call Robespierre a tyrant every time I spoke to him. I did the same
with Saint-Just and Couthon."]

[Footnote 3262: Carnot, I., 525. (Testimony of Prieur.) Ibid., 522.
Saint-Just says to Carnot: "You are in league with the enemies of the
patriots. It is well for you to know that a few lines from me could send
you to the guillotine in two days."]

[Footnote 3263: Buchez et Roux, XXX., 185. (Reply of Billaud,
Collot, Vadier and Barere to the renewed charges against them by
Lecointre.)--Moniteur, XXIV., 84. (Session of Germinal 7, year III.)
Words of Barere: "On the 4th of Thermidor, in the Committee, Robespierre
speaks like a man who had orders to give and victims to point
out."--"And you, Barere," he replies, "remember the report you made on
the 2nd of Thermidor,"]

[Footnote 3264: Heraclitus ( c. 540-480 BC) pre-Socratic philosopher,
who believed in a cosmic justice where sinners would be punished and
haunted by the Erinyes, (the furies) the handmaids of justice. (SR).]

[Footnote 3265: Saint-Just, report on the Girondists, July 8, 1793; on
the necessity of imprisoning persons inimical to the Revolution, Feb.26,
1794; on the Hebertists, March 13; on the arrest of Herault-Sechelles
and Simond, March 17; on the arrest of Danton and associates March 31;
on a general policy, April 15.--Cf., likewise, his report on declaring
the government revolutionary until peace is declared, Oct. 10, 1793, and
his report of the 9th of Thermidor, year II.]

[Footnote 3266: Buchez et Roux, XXXI., 346. (Report of March 13,
1794.)--XXXII., 314. (Report of April 15.)]

[Footnote 3267: See "The Revolution," II., 313.]

[Footnote 3268: A single phrase often suffices to give the measure of
a man's intellect and character. The following by Saint-Just has this
merit.