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Quotation from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“complexion of a multiplex atrabiliar colour, the final shade of which may be the pale sea-green”

Thomas Carlyle (spoken by Thomas Carlyle (narrator))

The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book IV (States-General), Ch. IV, 'The Procession' (Project Gutenberg #1301)

Carlyle's first portrait of the young deputy Robespierre, using the old humoral word for black bile to suggest a bilious, suspicious temperament.

Citation: "complexion of a multiplex atrabiliar colour, the final shade of which may be the pale sea-green" — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, Vol. I, Book IV (States-General), Ch. IV, 'The Procession' (Project Gutenberg #1301). (id the-french-revolution-carlyle-q6)

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