#if robespierre is the living embodiment of the Too Dumb To Live trope

[anotherhumaninthisworld]

Therefore, if you have the oppurtunity to meet him, and the conversation starts revolving around me, I leave you my reputation. What induces me warn you in this way is that my brother last year told me that cousin Henriet was far from eulogizing me, and I believe that on his next journey he will go even further than what he said previous years, as he now believes he has the right to revenge. Regardless, if I allowed myself a few jokes on his expense, it was always in secret and within earshot; but in public, and whenever the words I uttered might have had any consequence, I have always exalted my cousin, and I dare to speak against my conscience at times, at least in some respects. Camille Desmoulins in the first conserved letter written by him that we know of, dated May 10 1782

I had dreamed about a republic that everyone would have loved. Never had I imagiened that men could be so cruel and so injust. How can it be so that a few jokes in my writings, against colleagues that had provoked me, could delete the memory of my services! I do not hide the fact that I die as a victim of these jokes and of my friendship for Danton. Desmoulins in the last conserved letter have from him, written in the Luxembourg prison on April 1 1794