Danton Page #3

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- You're for attacking the Committee?

- Not yet

l'm also thinking it over

- l'd like to know what you're after

- So would l

- Would you end the terror?

- Would you topple the government?

l'd join you if l trusted your motives

Don't you believe me?

Why?

You formed the Revolutionary Tribunal

and voted to execute the king

So did you

This leads nowhere

Did l ask for your help?

Georges, Phillippeaux and his kind

want to support you

Reassure them you won't

abuse your power

- l don't want power

- You say that now

No, l don't want power. l'm 35

and l look 60, l'm tired

l'd like to retire

But first l must end the terror,

because l'm partly to blame for it

Fine words, but we know you too well

You're rich enough to give up politics

Take care, Philippeaux!

lt's you who asked to talk to me

Calm down, Georges

All right, I'm listening, but make it short, what do you want?

Disarm the Public Safety Committee,

it has outlived its usefulness

Do it without causing an upheaval.

Only you can do it

Frankly, you disgust me, but

l've decided to back you

Thank you, l'm flattered.

How will you do it?

With armed men, if need be

- Are you worried?

- Yes, everyone is

- You really want to move?

- Strike now... l told you

lnsurrection is a terrible,

uncontrollable force... no!

Robespierre has one weakness: his

secret police, loathed by everyone

Bourdon, in the Convention today,

attack a top secret agent

- Hiron?

- Yes, for example

Accuse him, mention informers,

searches - the nation will support you

lt'll say this is its last hope for

freedom, and we are that last hope

- ls that enough?

- Yes, they'll calm down

So will Robespierre. Go on

Georges is right

Always heed your wife, it'll be

the start of a new era

Then back to our modest, quiet lives

Yours will be quiet and ours modest

lf you see poverty as a revolutionary

virtue, join Robespierre

And you change printers

What can be more destructive,

more anti-Republican...

...than this invisible police,

with its numerous informers...

...that infiltrates everywhere,

spreading lies and threats?

This police which endangers

individual liberty...

...which foments mistrust

between fathers and sons...

...and sees itself as above the law?

This police...

...is headed by an ex-criminal

named Hiron...

...who, under the guise of...

Who, under the guise of public

service, settles private scores...

...and openly favours

the rogues he recruits

He seems in a rush,

where's he going?

The Committee, of course, got up

as soon as Hiron was mentioned

The Convention voted to arrest Hiron

Our best man? Lose him and

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