voted

“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”

“He has composed two or three comic operas, written four or five articles in the Siècle, and voted five or six years on the ministerial side.”