et in fact the single department of Paris has the whole
power of the government." Through the pressure of the mob Paris makes
the law for the Convention and for all France.--Ibid., II. 534 (during
the king's trial). "All the departments of France, including that of
Paris, are in reality often obliged to submit to the clamorous tyranny
of a set of hired ruffians in the tribunes who usurp the name and
functions of the sovereign people, and, secretly direct by a few
demagogues, govern this unhappy nation." Cf. Ibid., II. (Nov. 13).]

[Footnote 3403: Schmidt, I. 96. Letter of Lauchou to the president of
the Convention, Oct. 11, 1792: "The section of 1792 on its own authority
decreed on the 5th of this month that all persons in a menial service
could be allowed to vote in our primary assemblies... It would be well
for the National Convention to convince the inhabitants of Paris that
they alone do not constitute the entire republic. However absurd this
idea may be, it is gaining ground every day."--Ibid., Letter of Damour,
vice-president of the Pantheon section, Oct. 29: "The citizen Paris...
has said that when the law is in conflict with general opinion no
attention must be paid to it... These disturbers of the public peace
who desire to monopolize all places, either in the municipality or
elsewhere, are themselves the cause of the greatest tumult."]

[Footnote 3404: Schmidt, I. 223 (report by Dutard, May 14).]

[Footnote 3405: Mortimer-Ternaux, VI. 117; VII. 59 (balloting of Dec.
2 and 4). In most of these and the following elections the number of
voters is but one-twentieth of those registered. Chaumette is elected
in his section by 53 votes; Hebert by 56; Gency, a master-cooper, by
34; Lechenard, a tailor, by 39; Douce, a building-hand, by 24.--Pache
is elected mayor Feb. 15, 1793, by 11,881 votes, out of 160,000
registered.]

[Footnote 3406: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 101. (Decree of Aug. 19,
1792).--Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 223.--Beaulieu, "Essais," III. 454.
"The National Guard ceased to exist after the 10th of August."--Buzot,
454.--Schmidt, I. 533 (Dutard, May 29). "It is certain that the armed
forces of Paris is nonexistent."]

[Footnote 3407: Beaulieu, Ibid., IV. 6.--"Archives Nationales," F7, 3249
(Oise).--Letters of the Oise administrators, Aug. 24, Sept. 12 and 20,
1792. Letters of the administrators of the district of Clermont, Sept.
14, etc.]

[Footnote 3408: Cf. above, ch. IX.-"Archives Nationales," F7, 3249.