S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887.

Claude Bazire

[A member of the French Convention, born 1764; voted for the death of Louis XVI.; having become a partisan of Danton, was executed, 1794.]

We have made a compact with death.

When, in a debate in the Convention, on foreign affairs, he was asked if a treaty had been made with victory.