<Li> Œuvres complètes, edited by Anne Kupiec and Miguel Abensour, Paris, 2004 . (in French) </Li> <P> Ambitious and active - minded, Saint - Just worked urgently and tirelessly towards his goals: "For Revolutionists there is no rest but in the tomb ." He was repeatedly described by contemporaries as arrogant, believing himself to be a skilled leader and orator as well as having proper revolutionary character . This self - assurance manifested itself in a superiority complex, and he always "made it clear...that he considered himself to be in charge and that his will was law ." Camille Desmoulins once wrote of Saint - Just, "He carries his head like a sacred host ." </P> <P> Saint - Just's rise to power wrought a remarkable change in his personality . Freewheeling and passionate in his youth, Saint - Just quickly became focused, "tyrannical and pitilessly thorough ." He became "the ice - cold ideologist of republican purity," "as inaccessible as stone to all the warm passions ." A measure of his change can be inferred from the experience of Thérèse Gellé, who is known to have left her husband and taken up residence in a Parisian neighborhood near Saint - Just in late 1793 . Saint - Just--who had already developed something of a relationship, tepid but potentially expedient, with the sister of his colleague Lebas--refused to see her . Gelle stayed there for over a year, returning to Blérancourt only after Saint - Just was dead . No record exists of any exchanges they might have had, but Saint - Just is known to have written to a friend complaining impatiently about the rumors connecting him to "citizen Thorin". </P> <P> In his public speaking, Saint - Just was even more daring and outspoken than his mentor Robespierre . Regarding France's internal strife, he spared few: "You have to punish not only the traitors, but even those who are indifferent; you have to punish whoever is passive in the republic, and who does nothing for it ." He thought the only way to create a true republic was to rid it of enemies, to enforce the "complete destruction of its opposite ." Regarding the war, he declared without regret to the Convention, "The vessel of the Revolution can arrive in port only on a sea reddened with torrents of blood ." He urged the deputies to embrace the notion that "a nation generates itself only upon heaps of corpses ." </P>

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