Introduction

revolutionsepisode three, point 34, saturn's children. On march thirteenth, 17 93, a few days after the first aborted attempt by the onraj agitators to purge the national convention of the giranden delegates,. one of those girandens stood up to deliver a prophetic verdict on the direction of the revolution. And he famously warned so citizens, it must be feared that the revolution, like saturn successively devouring its children, will engender finally, only despotism with the calamities that accompany it.