nchmen,
and you, our fellow citizens--virtuous, intelligent women, bringing your
gentle influence into the sanctuary of the law--behold the guarantee of
peace which the legislature presents to you!"--We seem to be witnessing
the last act of an opera.]

[Footnote 2211: Ibid., XII. 230 (sessions of April 26 and May 5). Report
and speech by Francois de Nantes. The whole speech, a comic treasure
from the beginning to the end, ought to have been quoted: "Tell me,
pontiff of Rome, what your sentiments will be when you welcome your
worthy and faithful co-operators?.. I behold your sacred hands, ready to
launch those pontifical thunderbolts, which, etc... Let the brazier
of Scoevola be brought in, and, with our outstretched palms above the
burning coals, we will show that there is no species of torture, no
torment which can excite a frown on the brow of him whom the love of
country exalts above humanity!"--Suppose that, just at this moment, a
lighted candle had been placed under his hand!]

[Footnote 2212: Moniteur, XI. 179 (session of Jan. 20, 1792).--Ibid.,
216 (session of Jan. 24).--XII. 426 (May 9).]

[Footnote 2213: Ibid., XII. 479 (session of May 24).--XIII. 71 (session
of July 7, speech by Lasource).--Cf. XIV. 301 (session of July 31) a
quotation from Voltaire brought in for the suppression of the convents.]

[Footnote 2214: Moniteur. Speech by Aubert Dubayer, session of Aug. 30.]

[Footnote 2215: Speech by Chaumette, procureur of the commune, to the
newly married. (Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 408).]

[Footnote 2216: The class to which they belonged has been portrayed, to
the life, by M. Roye-Collard (Sainte-Beuve, "Nouveaux Lundis," IV. 263):
"A young lawyer at Paris, at first received in a few houses on the Ile
St. Louis, he soon withdrew from this inferior world of attorneys
and pettyfoggers, whose tone oppressed him. The very thought of the
impression this gallant and intensely vulgar mediocrity made upon him,
still inspired disgust. He much preferred to talk with longshoremen, if
need be, than with these scented limbs of the law."]

[Footnote 2217: Etienne Dumont, "Memoires," 40.--Mercure de France, Nov.
19, 1791; Feb. 11 and March 3, 1792. (articles by Mallet du Pan).]

[Footnote 2218: Moniteur, Dec. 17 (examination at the bar of the house
of Rauch, a pretended labor contractor, whom they are obliged to send
off acquitted). Rauch tells them: "I have no money, and cannot find
a place where I can sleep at less than