Many employees , in short , agree with ms maier , who recommends that chief executives be guillotined to the tune of " la carmagnole " , a revolutionary song .
Under the president sat doctor manette , in his usual quiet dress . As well as the prisoner could see , he and mr. lorry were the only men there , unconnected with the tribunal , who wore their usual clothes , and had not assumed the coarse garb of the carmagnole .
Then , they elevated into the vacant chair a young woman from the crowd to be carried as the goddess of liberty , and then swelling and overflowing out into the adjacent streets , and along the river 's bank , and over the bridge , the carmagnole absorbed them every one and whirled them away .
It -- that barricade , chance , hazard , disorder , terror , misunderstanding , the unknown -- had facing it the constituent assembly , the sovereignty of the people , universal suffrage , the nation , the republic ; and it was the carmagnole bidding defiance to the marseillaise .
