Lyons also we beleaguer. Against domestic foes it issues the law of the suspects. The guillotine gets always quicker motion. After her, the scaffold claims the twenty-two Girondins. Terror is become the order of the day.
Marseilles is taken, and under martial law.
Toulon is once more the Republic's. But on Prairial 20, the world is in holiday clothes in the Jardin National. Nowise, however, checking the guillotine, going ever faster. On July 26, when the Incorruptible addresses the Convention, there is dissonance. Such mutiny is like fire sputtering in the ship's powder-room.