against the accused who avoid a trial. Gorsas, seized in Paris on
the 8th of October, is guillotined the same day. Birotteau, seized at
Bordeaux, on the 24th of October, mounts the scaffold within twenty-four
hours. The others, tracked like wolves, wandering in disguise from one
hiding-place to another, and most of them arrested in turn, have only
choice of several kinds of death. Cambon is killed in defending himself.
Lidon, after having defended himself, blows out his brains, Condorcet
takes poison in the guard-room of Bourg-la-Reine. Roland kills himself
with his sword on the highway. Claviere stabs himself in prison.
Rebecqui is found drowned in the harbor of Marseilles, and Petion
and Buzon half eaten by wolves on a moor of Saint-Emilion. Valady is
executed at Perigueux, Dechezeau at Rochefort, Grangeneuve, Guadet,
Salle and Barbaroux at Bordeaux, Coustard, Cussy, Rabout-Saint-Etienne,
Bernard, Masuyer, and Lebrun at Paris. Even those who resigned in
January, 1793, Kersaint and Manuel, atone with their lives for the crime
of having sided with the "Right" and, of course, Madame Roland, who
is taken for the leader of the party, is one of the first to be
guillotined.[11109]--Of the one-hundred and eighty Girondins who led
the Convention, one hundred and forty have perished or are in prison,
or fled under sentence of death. After such a curtailment and such an
example the remaining deputies cannot be otherwise than docile;[11110]
neither in the central nor in the local government will the "Mountain"
encounter resistance; its despotism is practically established, and all
that remains is to proclaim this in legal form.

XI. Institutions of the Revolutionary Government

Institutions of the Revolutionary Government.--Its
principle, objects, proceedings, tools and structure.--The
Committee of Public Safety.--Subordination of the Convention
and ministry.--The use of the Committee of General Security
and the Revolutionary Tribunal.--Administrative
centralization.--Representatives on Mission, National Agents
and Revolutionary Committees.--Law of Lese-majesty.
--Restoration and Aggravation of the institutions of the old
monarchy.

After the 2nd of August, on motion of Bazire, the Convention decrees
"that France is in revolution until its independence is recognized."
which means[11111] that the period of hypocritical phrases has come to
an end, that the Constitution was merel