"Dumouriez' soldiers said to him: 'F--,
papa general, get the Convention to order us to march on Paris and
you'll see how we will make mince-meat of those b--in the Assembly!'"]

[Footnote 1251: With want great interest did any aspiring radical
politicians read these lines, whether the German socialist from Hitler
learned so much or Lenin during his long stay in Paris around 1906.
Taine maybe thought that he was arming decent men to better understand
and defend the republic against a new Jacobin onslaught while, in fact,
he provided them with an accurate recipe for repeating the revolution.
(SR).]

[Footnote 1252: At. Matthew, 17:20. (SR.)]

[Footnote 1253: Buchez et Roux, XXVIII 55. Letter by Brun-Lafond, a
grenadier in the national guard, July 14, 1793, to a friend in the
provinces, in justification of the 31st of May. The whole of this letter
requires to be read. In it are found the ordinary ideas of a Jacobin in
relation to history: "Can we ignore, that it is ever the people of Paris
which, through its murmurings and righteous insurrections against the
oppressive system of many of our kings, has forced them to entertain
milder sentiments regarding the relief of the French people, and
principally of the tiller of the soil?.. Without the energy of Paris,
Paris and France would now be inhabited solely by slaves, while this
beautiful soil would present an aspect as wild and deserted as that
of the Turkish empire or that of Germany," which has led us "to confer
still greater lustre on this Revolution, by re-establishing on earth
the ancient Athenian and other Grecian republics in all their purity.
Distinctions among the early people of the earth did not exist; early
family ties bound people together who had no ancient founders or origin;
they had no other laws in their republics but those which, so to say,
inspired them with those sentiments of fraternity experienced by them in
the cradle of primitive populations."]

[Footnote 1254: Barbaroux, "Memoires" (Ed. Dauban), 336.--Gregoire,
"Memoires," I. 410.]

[Footnote 1255: "La Revolution Francaise," by Quinet (extracts from the
unpublished "Memoires" of Baudot), II. 209, 211, 421, 620.--Guillon de
Montleon I. 445 (speech by Chalier, in the Lyons Central Club, March 23,
1793). "They say that the sans-culottes will go on spilling their blood.
This is only the talk of aristocrats. Can a sans-culotte be reached in
that quarter? Is he not invulnerable, like the gods whom h