And Even As She Fled … (2)

And even as she fled the Republic charmed him. The wind blew her garments and her hair streamed loose. So flew the young revolutionary and the shy Republic – he on the wings of love and she on those of fear.

Ovid, The Metamorphoses, Book 1, Fable XII. I POTESI. Saint-Just & L’Antiquite. PATER Apollo in Picardy WITTKOWER Bernini. MIGNET Histoire de la Revolution Francaise.