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All beauty is a mask

"From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I quite admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, absurdly."

Augustin went up the steps of the tribune. He wore spectacles, says Nodier, and he looked tired, thin and worn, much older than his years. He began to speak in his ugly, rasping voice. His shirt collar showed under his cravat and Nodier noticed the elegance of his clothes and the fineness of his linen.

————Mary Young 《Augustin:The Younger Robespierre》

Strangely enough, the physical monster painted by the Thermidorians, the monster they never tire of lacerating, is presented to us elegantly attired, and the only sincere evidence they give of him is that he was always well dressed.