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Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

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When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.


— Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud


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He was kept under surveillance there for nearly a month and in the early days of July was imprisoned in La Force Prison. On one of the walls of the Carmelite convent to which for a short time the prisoners were removed Vergniaud wrote in letters of blood: Potius mori quam foedari--Death before dishonor. Early in October the Convention brought forward its indictment of the twenty-two Girondists.

He was a supporter of Jacques Pierre Brissot and the Girondist faction. A deputy to the Assembly from Bordeaux Vergniaud was a notably eloquent orator.

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