with the imprint and character
of truth, all tyrants leagued against the constitution' (Moniteur, XII.
457, session of May 21)"--Ibid., XIII. 249 (session of July 25). "A
young citoyenne offers to combat, in person, against the enemies of her
country;" and the president, with a gallant air, replies: "Made rather
to soothe, than to combat tyrants, your offer, etc."]

[Footnote 2222: Moniteur, XL 576 (session of March 6); XII. 237, 314,
368 (sessions of April 27, May 5 and 14).]

[Footnote 2223: Mercure de France. Sept. 19,1791, Feb.11, and March 3,
1792.--Buchez et Roux, XVI 185 (session of July 26, 1792).]

[Footnote 2224: "Memoires de Mallet du Pan," 1433 (tableau of the three
parties, with special information).]

[Footnote 2225: Buchez et Roux, XII. 348 (letter by the deputy Cheron,
president of the Feuillants Club). The deputies of the Legislative
Assembly, registered at the Feuillants Club, number 264 besides a large
number of deputies in the Constituent Assembly.--According to Mallet du
Pan the so-called Independents number 250.]

[Footnote 2226: These figures are verified by decisive ballottings
(Mortimer-Ternauz, II. 205, 348.)]

[Footnote 2227: Moniteur, XII. 393 (session of May 15, speech by
Isnard): "The Constituent Assembly only half dared do what it had the
power to do. It has left in the field of liberty, even around the very
roots of the young constitutional tree, the old roots of despotism and
of the aristocracy... It has bound us to the trunk of the constitutional
tree, like powerless victims given up to the rage of their
enemies."----Etienne Dumont saw truly the educational defects peculiar
to the party. He says, apropos of Madame Roland: "I found in her too
much of that distrustful despotism which belongs to ignorance of
the world.. . What her intellectual development lacked was a greater
knowledge of the world and intercourse with men of superior judgment to
her own. Roland himself had little intellectual breadth, while all
those who frequented her house never rose above the prejudices of the
vulgar."]

[Footnote 2228: "Souvenirs", by PASQUIER (Etienne-Dennis, duc),
chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893.]

[Footnote 2229: Madame de Stael, "Considerations sur la Revolution
Francaise," IIIrd part, ch. III.-Madame de Stael conversed with them
and judges them according to the shrewd perceptions of a woman of the
world.]

[Footnote 2230: Louvet, "Memoires" 32. "I belonge