of April, 1792, Rebecqui and Bertin, the vanquishers of Arles,
enter Avignon[2453] along with a cortege, at the head of which are from
thirty to forty of the principal murderers whom the Legislative Assembly
itself had ordered to be recommitted to prison, Duprat, Mainvielle,
Toumal, Mende, then Jourdan in the uniform of a commanding general
crowned with laurel and seated on a white horse, and, lastly, the dames
Duprat, Mainvielle and Tournal, in dashing style, standing on a sort of
triumphal chariot; during the procession the cry is heard, "The Glaciere
will be full this time!"--On their approach the public functionaries
fly; twelve hundred persons abandon the town. Forthwith each terrorist,
under the protection of the Marseilles bayonets, resumes his office,
like a man at the head of his household. Raphel, the former judge, along
with his clerk, both with warrants of arrest against them, publicly
officiate, while the relatives of the poor victims slain on the 16th of
October, and the witnesses that appeared on the trial, are threatened in
the streets; one of them is killed, and Jourdan, king of the department
for an entire year, begins over again on a grand scale, at the head
of the National Guard, and afterwards of the police body, the same
performance which, on a small scale, he pursued under the ancient
regime, when, with a dozen "armed and mounted" brigands, he traversed
the highways, forced open lonely houses at night, and, in one chateau
alone, stole 24,000 francs.

V.--The other departments.

Uniform process of the Jacobin conquest.--Preconceived
formation of a Jacobin State.

The Jacobin conquest takes place like this: already in during April,
1792, through acts of violence almost equal to those we have just
described, it spreads over more than twenty departments and, to a
smaller degree, over the other sixty.[2454] The composition of the
parties is the same everywhere. On one side are the irresponsible of all
conditions,

"squanderers who, having consumed their own inheritance, cannot tolerate
that of another, men without property to whom disorder is a door open to
wealth and public office, the envious, the ungrateful whose obligations
to their benefactors the revolution cancels, the hot-headed, all those
enthusiastic innovators who preach reason with a dagger in their hand,
the poor, the brutal and the wretched of the lower class who, possessed
by one leading anarchical idea, one example