Reign of Terror

The people of Paris went mad after Marat's death.

His body, which was said to be decaying with unusual rapidity, was surrounded by a great crowd which worshipped it blasphemously, saying, Oh, sacred heart of Marat! This worship of Marat, which showed how deeply his teaching had bitten into the hearts of the people, culminated in the Reign of Terror, which began on September 5, 1795, whereby France lost, according to different estimates, between half a million and a million innocent people.

Some superior persons seem to think that Marat had little or no influence on the revolution, but to my mind there can be no doubt that the Terror was largely the result of his preaching of frantic violence, and it is a lesson that we ourselves should take to heart, seeing that there are persons in the world today who would emulate Marat if they possessed his enormous courage.

I need not narrate the history of the Reign of Terror, which was even worse than the Terror which the Bolsheviks established in Russia.

Not even Lenin and Trotsky devised anything so atrocious as the noyades, wholesale drownings in the Loire, or the mariage répuglin on the banks of that river, and it is difficult to believe that the teaching of Marat had nothing to do with that frightful outbreak of bestiality, lust, and murder.

The evil that men do lives after them.

The people of Paris went mad after Marat's death.

His body, which was said to be decaying with unusual rapidity, was surrounded by a great crowd which worshiped it blasphemously, saying, "Oh, sacred heart of Marat." This worship of Marat, which showed how deeply his teaching had bitten into the hearts of the people, culminated in the Reign of Terror, which began on September 5, 1795, whereby France lost, according to different estimates, between half a million and a million innocent people.

Some superior persons seem to think that Marat had little or no influence on the revolution, but to my mind there can be no doubt that the Terror was largely the result of his preaching of frantic violence, and it is a lesson that we ourselves should take to heart, seeing that there are persons in the world today who would emulate Marat if they possessed his enormous courage.

I need not narrate the history of the Reign of Terror, which was even worse than the Terror which the Bolsheviks established in Russia.

Not even Lenin and Trotsky devised anything so atrocious as the noyades, wholesale drownings in the Loire, or the mariage a Repuglin on the banks of that river, and it is difficult to believe that the teaching of Marat had nothing to do with that frightful outbreak of bestiality, lust, and murder.

The evil that men do lives after them.

While Paine maintained freedom of discussion, Burke first proposed criminal prosecution for sentiments by no means libelous such as Paine's Part First.

While Paine was endeavoring to make the movement in France peaceful, Burke fomented the League of Monarchs against France which maddened its people and brought on the Reign of Terror.

While Paine was endeavoring to preserve the French throne, phantom though he believed it, to prevent bloodshed, Burke was secretly writing to the Queen of France entreating her not to compromise and to, quote, trust to the support of foreign armies, end quote.

Histoire de France depuis 1789, Henri Martin, I, 151.

Viewed in its true light, the idea, if somewhat pedantic, was not unpleasing.

Chapter 18 The Terror by means of its courageous contempt for the so-called laws of political economy its wholesale requisitions and the compulsion exercised on all traders and farmers with the aid of its revolutionary army to sell at the maximum price the fearful misery occasioned by the circumstances of the time was kept under to a considerable extent by the commune the revolutionary committees established in every section of france the ambulatory deputies who watched the provinces and were present with the military forces and last but not least the army of the commune under general ronson nevertheless had hard work to prevent the law of maximum from being violated the commune now granted a free allowance of bread for each family arrests in paris and the provinces went on apace by the end of october three thousand persons were in the prisons of paris alone the revolutionary committees formed in every section having as already stated power to arrest all persons suspected of reactionary tendencies on the fourteenth of october the queen marie antoinette was brought before the revolutionary tribunal and convicted after two days hearing on overwhelming evidence of the basest treachery towards france and of the most sanguinary intentions with regard to paris it was indeed high time that this atrocious woman met her deserts when the country was at the lowest depths of misery some years before the outbreak of the revolution all this abandoned wretch could think of was squandering fabulous sums of the nation's wealth in conjunction with her friend the court head prostitute and procuress the princess de lamballe killed in the september massacres on jewels balls and sinecures for her paramours if any one ventured to call attention to some flagrant abuse in her presence he was invariably silenced with the reply yes but we must amuse ourselves oui it was only after her amusements had been curtailed by the utter collapse of the finances a consummation to which she had contributed so largely by her criminal extravagances that she began to interest herself in public affairs her aim was then to get back the means for her debaucherie and when the revolution broke out and affairs looked less and less productive of the diamond necklaces etc her hatred against the new regime which had deprived her of those things naturally knew no bounds and henceforth her one hope was a foreign invasion which would quench the revolution in the blood of france and place the french people once more in her power as for poor feeble foolish louis he was completely in the toils of this noxious reptile note one the real character of marie antoinette apart from the lies of royalist historians may be seen from her correspondence with maria theresa and of the latter with the comte a good digest of it is given in m georges avenel's essay la vraie marie antoinette return to text many who looked on at the tumbril conveying her to execution must have been inclined to think that the guillotine was too good for the foul she was not without a certain histrionic ability and when before the tribunal played out her queenly figure in a manner which showed that she might have gained an honest living in transpontine melodrama much indignation has been expended on the charge of misconduct toward her son the little dauphin which hebert brought against her it is sufficient here to state that there are extant documents which show that the charge was not made without very good grounds although in the nature of things it could not be certainly proved the fact is it is a mistake to apply the ordinary canons of maternity to a creature like marie antoinette she was altogether an obscene abortion of the corrupt court life of the eighteenth century the like of which let us hope may never be seen again propos of the dauphin it is necessary to caution our readers against the lies of the reaction anent his treatment and especially the foul calumnies against the young shoemaker simon whose care he was placed all the contemporary evidence goes to show that the poor child received every consideration and kindness but that having inherited a scrofulous or syphilitic constitution from both parents which was further weakened in ways unnecessary to go into It was impossible to rear him, that in spite of every care he died in the temple the following year.

on the twenty fourth of october the twenty-two girondists were brought to trial they were convicted after five days proceedings and guillotined on the sixth valasey one of their number stabbed himself to death with a dagger on hearing the sentence but his body was nevertheless sent to be guillotined with the rest they embraced each other on arriving at the place de la rvolution and died singing the marseillaise proofs of their complicity in the insurrection of the departments were complete they had played for high stakes and lost seventy-three other girondist deputies had been for some time under lock and key having been compromised in some papers found at the house of the deputy whom charlotte corday had visited on her first arrival in paris with the execution of the twenty-two however girondism as a distinct party finally disappears from history the girondins it may here be mentioned were largely under the influence of voltaire just as the mountain as a party was chiefly under the influence of rousseau meanwhile lyons the last stronghold of royalism and girondism had fallen and toulon had been recovered from the english to whom it had been surrendered both towns were visited with a fearful vengeance collot d'herbois who was a member both of the commune and of the committee of public safety acting in conjunction with couthon the disciple of robespierre ordered wholesale massacres of the inhabitants of the former city in his capacity of commissioner a colleague of collot's was also a leading agent of the terror le bon worked the guillotine at arras friron the dantoniste made his holocausts at marseilles and toulouse and tallien at bordeaux at nantes carrier another commissioner inaugurated his horrible noyade or drownings in which those suspected of royalism or modernism were placed in boats with false bottoms and drowned in the loire in some of these cases a man and woman were tied together naked this was called republican marriage the revolutionary commissioners or proconsuls in some cases travelled from town to town carrying a guillotine with them all these things were very infamous it will be said and so they were but they were not any worse if so bad as the acts of more than one respectable government in forty eight of the czar in poland in sixty three or of the versaillistes in paris in seventy one events which the middle classes have complacently swallowed without indignation

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And it becomes proved to demonstration when we see its organization seized upon as the basis of further and more complex planning for the avowed purposes of ruining Christianity and placing atheism in its stead.

French atheism, using Masonry thus perfected, produced what it aimed at during the reign of terror in France, which, as we shall see, is only a prelude to what it means one day to accomplish throughout the entire world.

In order to make these facts clear, the writer, so far as the form of a single lecture would allow, has given as much of the history and character of both Voltaire and Freemasonry as might serve to show the adaptability of the latter to the designs of the former.

He has spoken of the union and illuminism of Masonry through the instrumentality of Weishaupt and has shown the immediate consequences of the organization and influence of that arch-conspirator in the first French Revolution and its outcome, the consulate and the empire.

The principle of divorce affirmed, and respect for ecclesiastics lessened and destroyed.

Lastly, when the whole body of the Church should be sufficiently weakened, and infidelity strong enough, the final blow was to be dealt by the sword of open, relentless persecution.

A reign of terror was to spread over the whole earth, and to continue while a Christian should be found obstinate enough to adhere to Christianity.

This, of course, was to be followed by a universal brotherhood without marriage, family, property, God, or law, in which all men would reach that level of social degradation aimed at by the disciples of St. Simon, and carried into practice whenever possible, as attempted by the French Commune.

And it becomes proved to demonstration when we see its organization seized upon as the basis of further and more complex planning for the avowed purposes of ruining Christianity and placing atheism in its stead.

French atheism, using Masonry thus perfected, produced what it aimed at during the reign of terror in France, which, as we shall see, is only a prelude to what it means one day to accomplish throughout the entire world.

In order to make these facts clear, the writer, so far as the form of a single lecture would allow, has given as much of the history and character of both Voltaire and Freemasonry as might serve to show the adaptability of the latter to the designs of the former.

He has spoken of the union and illuminism of Masonry through the instrumentality of Weishaupt and has shown the immediate consequences of the organization and influence of that arch-conspirator in the first French Revolution and its outcome, the Consulate and the Empire.

The principle of divorce affirmed, and respect for ecclesiastics lessened and destroyed.

Lastly, when the whole body of the Church should be sufficiently weakened, and infidelity strong enough, the final blow was to be dealt by the sword of open, relentless persecution.

A reign of terror was to spread over the whole earth, and to continue while a Christian should be found obstinate enough to adhere to Christianity.

This, of course, was to be followed by a universal brotherhood without marriage, family, property, God, or law, in which all men would reach that level of social degradation aimed at by the disciples of St. Simon, and carried into practice whenever possible, as attempted by the French Commune.

But on January 16, 1793, this mock court sentenced him to death.

After the death of Louis XVI, Robespierre became the absolute master of France, and he was so cruel that the period of his rule has been called the Reign of Terror.

People were afraid, when they rose in the morning, that they might be beheaded during the day, and when they went to bed they feared lest assassins might enter their rooms and kill them while they slept.

It is stated on good authority that the executions during Robespierre's rule averaged about thirty a day.

In an all-new action-packed adventure, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II.

What is The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 about? It is set some years after the Reign of Terror under Judge Claude Frollo has come to an end, and Parisians have finally accepted the bell-ringing hunchback Quasimodo, voiced by Tom Hulse, along with Esmerelda, voiced by Demi Moore.

Esmerelda then has a son named Zephyr, who is voiced by Haley Joel Osmond, with the captain of the Parisian Guards, Phoebus, who is voiced by Kevin Kline.

Are you gonna ring at once for my mom, Quasi?