Later Days
After the Assembly's dissolution, Thouret became a member, and then in 1793 president, of the Court of Cassation. He was included in the proscription of the Girondists, whose political opinions he shared, and was guillotined in Paris during the Reign of Terror, the same day as fellow Constitutional Committee member Isaac René Guy le Chapelier, and defense attourney for Louis XVI, Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes.
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“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer? Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.”
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