posed in April, 1792.]

[Footnote 2380: Mercure de France, Nov. 23, 1791.]

[Footnote 2381: Philippe de Segur, "Memoires," I. (at Fresnes, a village
situated about seven leagues from Paris, a few days after Sep. 2,
1792). "A band of these demagogues pursued a large farmer of this place,
suspected of royalism and denounced as a monopoliser because he was
rich. These madmen had seized him, and, without any other form of trial,
were about to put an end to him, when my father ran up to them. He
addressed them, and so successfully as to change their rage into a
no less exaggerated enthusiasm for humanity. Animated by their new
transports, they obliged the poor farmer, still pale and trembling, and
whom they were just going to hang on its branches, to drink and dance
along with them around the tree of liberty."]

[Footnote 2382: Lacretelle, "Dix ans d'Epreuves," 78. "The Girondists
wanted to fashion a Roman people out of the dregs of Romulus, and, what
is worse, out of the brigands of the 5th of October."]

[Footnote 2383: These pages must have made a strong impression upon
Lenin when he read them in the National Library in Paris around 1907.
(SR).]

[Footnote 2384: Lafayette, I. 442. "The Girondists sought in the war an
opportunity for attacking with advantage, the constitutionalists of
1791 and their institutions."--Brissot (Address to my constituents). "We
sought in the war an opportunity to set traps for the king, to
expose his bad faith and his relationship with the emigrant
princes."--Moniteur, (session of April 3, 1793). Speech by Brissot: "'I
had told the Jacobins what my opinion was, and had proved to them that
war was the sole means of unveiling the perfidy of Louis XVI. The event
has justified my opinion."--Buchez et Roux, VIII. 60, 216, 217. The
decree of the Legislative Assembly is dated Jan. 25, the first money
voted by a club for the making of pikes is on Jan. 31, and the first
article by Brissot, on the red cap, is on Feb. 6.]

[Footnote 2385: Buchez et Roux, XIII. 217 (proposal of a woman, member
of the club of l'Eveche, Jan. 31, 1792).--Articles in the Gazette
Universelle, Feb.11, and in the Patriote Francais, Feb. 13.--Moniteur,
XI. 576 (session of March 6).--Buchez et Roux, XV. (session of June 10).
Petition of 8,000 national guards in Paris: "This faction which stirs
up popular vengeance... which seeks to put the caps of labor in conflict
with the military casques, the pike with the gun, the rustic'