You say that I am in part
responsible for something of all this that has happened. My
exhortations of the people at Rennes and twice afterwards at Nantes
are said to have had their share in what followed there. It may be
so. It would be beyond my power positively to deny it. Revolution
followed and bloodshed. More may yet come. To repent implies a
recognition that I have done wrong. How shall I say that I have
done wrong, and thus take a share of the responsibility for all
that blood upon my soul? I will be quite frank with you to show
you how far, indeed, I am from repentance. What I did, I actually
did against all my convictions at the time. Because there was no
justice in France to move against the murderer of Philippe de
Vilmorin, I moved in the only way that I imagined could make the
evil done recoil upon the hand that did it, and those other hands
that had the power but not the spirit to punish. Since then I
have come to see that I was wrong, and that Philippe de Vilmorin
and those who thought with him were in the right.
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