# Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 681 January 13, 1877

Author: Various; Chambers, Robert, 1802-1871 [Editor]; Chambers, William, 1800-1883 [Editor]

Genre: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46739

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## Summary

In every account of the French Revolution, there crop up names of actors in that terrible drama, not to be forgotten. The very vileness of these individuals has rendered their names imperishable. Execrated by successive generations, it would never occur to us that a time would come when, by a distortion of principle, literature would try to gloss over the evil deeds of these infamous personages, and hold them up to general admiration and pity. It would be imagined that Robespierre, Marat, St Just, Danton, Camille Desmoulins, Hebert, Couthon, and a number of others, were too bad--too persistently wicked--to evoke sentiments of compassion. Time, however, brings about unexpected changes. For...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-681-ea6e8287/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-681-ea6e8287/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-681-ea6e8287/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-681-ea6e8287/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/chambers-s-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-art-no-681-ea6e8287/chapters/5/index.md)