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VERDICT

PRONOUNCED

BY THE REVOLUTIONARY COURT Translated by Lynnea Wolfe and Allison Stoch

ESTABLISHED in Paris to judge conspirators without the possibility of appeal

JEAN-BAPTISTE CARRIER, ex-deputy to the National Convention, and his Accomplices, are condemned to the death penalty having been tried and convicted of drowning men, women, children, assassinating a large number of people and burning towns, where men and women had their throats cut and girls were raped.

In the name of the French Republic, the court has pronounced the following ruling: All that is most barbaric in cruelty; all the most treacherous crimes; all that is most arbitrary in authority; all that is most terrible of infractions; and all that is most revolting in immorality; these are the crimes committed by Carrier and his accomplices. In the most remote splendors of the world, in all the pages of history, even in the barbaric ages, one would barely be able to come across traits that come close to the horrors committed by those presently accused. Nero was less bloodthirsty, Phalaris less barbaric, and Syphanis less cruel. Under the mask of patriotism, they dared to commit the most heinous crimes; they dared to defile virtue in order to exalt crime; they coldly contemplated murder and assassination, they knowingly exercised all sorts of violent acts; the obligations of the magistrate were trampled, the cry