that they had at least sympathized with
the queen's sorrows sent them both to the scaffold.

With the failure of De Batz every project of escape was abandoned; and a
few weeks later the queen congratulated herself that she had refused to
flee without her boy, since in the course of May he was seized with
illness which for some days threatened to assume a dangerous character.
With a brutality which, even in such monsters as the Jacobin rulers of the
city, seems almost inconceivable, they refused to allow him the attendance
of M. Brunier, the physician who had had the charge of his infancy. It
would be a breach of the principles of equality, they said, if any
prisoner were permitted to consult any but the prison doctor. But the
prison doctor was a man of sense and humanity, as well as of professional
skill. He of his own accord sought the advice of Brunier; and the poor
child recovered, to be reserved for a fate which, even in the next few
weeks, was so foreshadowed, that his own mother must almost have begun to
doubt whether his restoration to health had been a blessing to her or to
himself.

The spring was marked by important events. Had one so high-minded been
capable of exulting in the misfortunes of even her worst enemies, Marie
Antoinette might have triumphed in the knowledge that the murderers of her
husband were already beginning that work of mutual destruction which in
little more than a year sent almost every one of them to the same scaffold
on which he had perished. The jealousies which from the first had set the
Jacobins and Girondins at variance had reached a height at which they
could only be extinguished by the annihilation of one party or the other.
They had been partners in crime, and so far were equal in infamy; but the
Jacobins were the fiercer and the readier ruffians; and, after nearly two
months of vehement debates in the Convention, in which Robespierre
denounced the whole body of the Girondin leaders as plotters of treason
against the State, and Vergniaud in reply reviled Robespierre as a coward,
the Jacobins worked up the mob to rise in their support. The Convention,
which hitherto had been divided in something like equality between the two
factions, yielded to the terror of a new insurrection, and on the 2d of
June ordered the arrest of the Girondin leaders. A very few escaped the
search made for them by the officers--Roland, to commit suicide;
Barbaroux, to attempt it; Petion and Buzot reached