mmittee which has just started the insurrection, and which through
its singular delegation sits enthroned over all other established
authorities.

"They were snoring,[34174] some stretched out on the benches and others
leaning on the tables with their elbows, some were barefoot others were
wearing their shoes slipshod like slippers; almost all were dirty and
poorly clad; their clothes were unbuttoned, their hair uncombed, and
their faces frightful; they wore pistols in their belts, and sabers,
with scarves turned into shoulder-straps. Bottles, bits of bread,
fragments of meat and bones lay strewn around on the floor, and smell
was rotten."

It looks like a tapestry of a middle age battle field. The chief of the
band here is not Chaumette, who has legal qualms,[34175] nor Pache,
who cunningly tacks under his mask of Swiss phlegm, but Hebert, another
Marat, yet more brutal and depraved, and who profits by the opportunity
to "put more coal into the furnace of his Pere Duchesne," striking off
600,000 copies of it, pocketing 135,000 francs for the numbers sent
to the armies, and gaining seventy-five per cent on the
contract.[34176]--In the street the active body of supporters consists
of two bands, one military and other civil, the former composed
of roughs who are soon to furnish the revolutionary army. "This
army,[34177] considered to be a recent institution, has actually existed
since 1789. The agents of the Duke of Orleans formed its first nucleus.
It grew, became organized, had officers appointed to it, mustering
points, orders of the day, and a peculiar slang.... All the revolutions
were carried out by its aid; it gave impetus to popular violence
wherever it did not appear en masse. On the 12th of July, 1789, it had
Necker's bust carried in public and the theaters closed; on the 5th of
October it started the populace off to Versailles; on the 20th of April,
1791, it caused the king's arrest in the court of the Tuileries...
Led by Westermann and Fournier, it formed the central battalion in the
attack of August 10, 1792; it carried out the September massacres; it
protected the Maratists on the 31st of May, 1793,... its composition
is in keeping with its exploits and its functions. It contains the most
determined scoundrels, the brigands of Avignon, the scum of Marseilles,
Brabant, Liege, Switzerland and the shores of Genoa." Through a careful
sifting,[34178] it is to be inspected, strengthened, aggravated, and
converte