seven o'clock in the evening
An overwhelming , all-compelling love filled his entire soul for the beautiful girl , who had so wronged , yet so nobly tried to save him . A longing for her made his very sinews ache ; she was no longer madonna , and her beauty thrilled him , with the passionate , almost sensuous desire to give his life for her . The indictment against Juliette Marny has become history now . On that day , the 25th Fructidor , at seven o'clock in the evening , it was read out by the Public Prosecutor , and listened to by the accused -- so the Bulletin tells us -- with complete calm and apparent indifference . She stood up in that same pillory where once stood poor , guilty Charlotte Corday , where presently would stand proud , guiltless Marie Antoinette . And Déroulède listened to the scurrilous document , with all the outward calm his strength of will could command . He would have liked to rise from his seat then and there , at once , and in mad , purely animal fury have , with a blow of his fist , quashed the words in Foucquier-Tinville 's lying throat .