1792.
"The populace--something, thank God, that is unknown in America"--He
often insists on this essential characteristic of the French
Revolution.--On this ever-present class, see the accurate and complete
work well supported by facts, of Dr. Lombrose, "L'Uomo delinquente."]

[Footnote 34172: Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. Letter of the deputy Laplaigne,
July 6.]

[Footnote 34173: Meillan, 51.--Buchez et Roux, XXVII. 356. Official
report of the commune, session of June 1. In the afternoon Marat comes
to the commune, harrangues the council, and gives the insurrection the
last impetus. It is plain that he was chief actor on both these days
(June 1 and 2).]

[Footnote 34174: Petion, 116.]

[Footnote 34175: Schmidt, I. 370.--Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 391. Letter
of Marchand, member of the Central Committee. "I saw Chaumette do
everything he could to hinder this glorious revolution,... exclaim, shed
tears, and tear his hair."--Buchez et Roux, XXVIII. 46. According to
Saladin, Chaumette went so far as to demand Hebert's arrest.]

[Footnote 34176: Mortimer-Ternaux, VII. 300.--Cf. "Le vieux Cordelier,"
by C. Desmoulins, No. 5.]

[Footnote 34177: Mallet du Pan, II. 52. (March 8, 1794).--The titular
general of the revolutionary army was Ronsin. "Previous to the
Revolution he was a seedy author earning his living and reputation by
working for the boulevard stalls... One day a person informed him that
his staff 'was behaving very badly, acting tyrannically in the most
outrageous manner at the theaters and everywhere else, striking women
and tearing their bonnets to pieces. Your men commit rape, pillage, and
massacre.' To which he replied; 'Well, what shall I do? I know that they
are a lot of ruffians as well as you do; but those are the follows I
need for my revolutionary army. Find me honest people, if you can,
that will do that business.'" (Prudhomme, "Crimes de la Revolution," V.
130.)]

[Footnote 34178: Buchez et Roux, XXIX. 152.]

[Footnote 34179: Beaulieu, "Essais sur la Revolution," V. 200.]

[Footnote 34180: Schmidt, II. 85. Report of Dutard, June 24 (on the
review of the previous evening) "A sort of low-class artisan who seemed
to me to have been a soldier... Apparently he had associated only with
disorderly men; I am sure that he would be found fond of gaming, wine,
women, and everything that denotes a bad character."]

[Footnote 34181: Charlotte de Corday d'Armont, 1768 to 1793. Young
French girl who knifed Marat in