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...Author Paul "without a flicker of her violet-blue eyes or a vulgar inflection of her well-trained voice, that she remained with Madame Absalom on Tuesday and Friday afternoons because her mother entertained her 'lover' on those days." ^ M. Corre, the conservative who ran the Epicerie Danton, scrimped so that his son could learn German and become a big salesman some day. Result: because he knew German, young Corre was sent to the Maginot Line, killed. ^ Odette kept the butter & eggs store and wore green-black clothes and looked pious and demure. "Actually she was an infidel...
...have tried to forget the characters, who mouthed their lurid lines in the worst school of European ham acting. There was Camilla Desmoulins (he longed to "embrace Liberty on a heap of dead bodies"); Louis Antoine de Saint-Just ("for Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb"); Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie...
With the execution of the King, and Danton out of the way, Robespierre began to suffer from the dictators' disease-the belief that he was an indispensable man. "His respect for the people-his belief that the voice of the people is the Voice of God-has hardened into a dogma, which in his heart, he no longer believes. What he believes is that Virtue was always in the minority.' " The next step would be a police state to enforce the virtuous minority's will oh the unvirtuous majority...
Next day through a shouting, hooting mob the tumbrils brought Robespierre and 21 colleagues to a hastily erected guillotine. Unlike Danton, Robespierre said nothing even when a child, "carrying a pailful of ox's blood and a whisk broom," stepped up to Robespierre's house and sprinkled the wall. "The crowd," says Author Korngold, "howled its approval...
...Broadway columnist, Danton Walker of the New York Daily News, reported his interview with an unnamed astrologer. Said Walker's oracle of Adolf Hitler: "His chart clearly shows him to be in the ever-tightening grip of a mental disorder. Neptune, the planet of imprisonment, treachery, insanity, assassination and suicide, is in his house of death...