for blood that they had created, had eliminated all sense of loyalty or justice, even to one another. The list of the victims of their own folly is so long that we will only The Duke of Orleans, the man who had pledged his honor, his fortune, and his blood to the revolution, in the end sacrificed them all. Used as a tool, cheated, and ruined by the conspiracy he espoused, he was finally led to the guillotine amid the insults and jeers of the populace of whom he had been represented as an idol. Mirabeau, an early leader of the Revolution, died suddenly just two days after having turned against his former friends. Danton, the man who helped plan and carry out the massacres of September, was sentenced to death and executed at the guillotine. Marat, who had called for the death of so many, was stabbed through the heart by a woman while in his own home. Even after his death an unholy fascination centered around him. Crowds of worshipers knelt around his body, blaspheming Christ and crying out, "Oh sacred heart of Marat!" Added to the display of Satanic admiration was the fact that his body decayed with amazing rapidity immediately after his death. Carrier, who ordered the murder of innocent children, Robespierre, the chief architect of the events from October 1793 on, was the last, and died a hideous death. 53 The French Revolution name a few. was executed by the guillotine surrounded by a jeering multitude.