I need a quote from Tale of Two Cities that refers or could relate to the Montagnard?

Question

If you don't know, don't answer. If you do know list where I can find it in the book. (Book#,Chapter#, Paragraph#) Thankyou.

Answer 1

In Book 3, Chapter XII, Carton visits the wine shop where he encounters the Defarges and the Jacques and has the opportunity to look over a Jacobin (Montagnard) newspaper.  The Montagnards were know for their "action first" policies and were identified with the Jacobins by their opposition to the Girondist moderates.

The implacable Madame Defarge echoes the Montagnard viewpoint:

"It is true what madame says," observed Jacques Three.  "Why stop?  There is great force in that.  Why stop?"

"Well, well," reasoned Defarge, "but one must stop somewhere.  After all, the question is still where?"

"At extermination," said madame.

"Magnificent!" croaked Jacques Three.  The Vengeance, also, highly approved.

"Extermination is good doctrine, my wife," said Defarge, rather troubled; "in general, I say nothing against it.  But this Doctor has suffered much; you have seen him to-day; you have observed his face when the paper was read."

"I have observed his face!" repeated madame, contemptuously and angrily.  "Yes.  I have observed his face.  I have observed his face to be not the face of a true friend of the Republic.  Let him take care of his face!"

"And you have observed, my wife," said Defarge, in a deprecatory manner, "the anguish of his daughter, which must be a dreadful anguish to him!"

"I have observed his daughter," repeated madame; "yes, I have observed his daughter, more times than one.  I have observed her to-day, and I have observed her other days.  I have observed her in the court, and I have observed her in the street by the prison.  Let me but lift my finger--!"  She seemed to raise it (the listener's eyes were always on his paper), and to let it fall with a rattle on the ledge before her, as if the axe had dropped.

"The citizeness is superb!" croaked the Juryman.

"She is an Angel!" said The Vengeance, and embraced her.

"As to thee," pursued madame, implacably, addressing her husband, "if it depended on thee--which, happily, it does not--thou wouldst rescue this man even now."

"No!" protested Defarge.  "Not if to lift this glass would do it! But I would leave the matter there.  I say, stop there."