Robespierre, who had been one of the chief organizers of the tumult, being also one of the basest of cowards, was the most terrified of all, and fled for shelter to his admirer, of congenial spirit, Madame Roland, whose protection he afterward repaid by sending her to the scaffold.
Robespierre was, indeed, only a pettifogging attorney.
[Footnote X: Robespierre was a native of Arras.