as Fabre d'Églantine, Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic?
The Head of the Jury. He is.
Judge. Is Pierre-Nicolas Philippeaux, former judge, and Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic?
The Head of the Jury. He is.
Judge. Is Marie-Jean Hérault-Séchelles, attorney general, and Deputy to the Convention, guilty of conspiring against the Republic?
The Head of the Jury. He is.
Judge. Is François-Joseph Westermann, brigadier-general, guilty of conspiring against the Republic?
The Head of the Jury. He is.
Fouquier-Tinville. I demand the application of the law.
Judge. Then the Tribunal condemns Georges-Jacques Danton, Lucie-Simplice-Camille Desmoulins, Marie-Jean Hérault-Séchelles, Philippe-François-Nazaire Fabre, known as Fabre d'Églantine, Pierre-Nicolas Philippeaux, and François-Joseph Westermann, to the death penalty. The Tribunal commands that this sentence be communicated to them between the two wickets of the Conciergerie by the clerk of the Tribunal, and that they be executed today, the six-teenth of Germinal, in the Place de la Révolution. [The People file out. Outside, the clamor becomes more and more indistinct.—Saint-Just, Vadier, and Billaud-Varenne look at each other in silence.]
Vadier. The rotten colossus at last laid low! The Republic can now draw a free breath.
