bid., XIII.
93, session of July 11. M. Gastelier: "Addresses in the name of the
people are constantly read to you, which are not even the voice of one
section. We have seen the same individual coming three times a week to
demand something in the name of sovereignty." (Shouts of down! down! in
the galleries.) Ibid., 208, session of July 21. M. Dumolard: "You
must distinguish between the people of Paris and these subaltern
intriguers... these habitual oracles of the cafes and public squares,
whose equivocal existence has for a long time occupied the attention and
claimed the supervision of the police." (Down with the speaker! murmurs
and hooting in the galleries).-Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 398. Protests of
the arsenal section, read by Lavoisier (the chemist): "The caprice of a
knot of citizens (thus) becomes the desire of an immense population."]

[Footnote 2643: Buchez et Roux, XVI. 251.--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 239
and 243. The central bureau is first opened in "the building of the
Saint-Esprit, in the second story, near the passage communicating with
the common dwelling." Afterwards the commissioners of the section occupy
another room in the Hotel-de-ville, nearly joining the throne-room,
where the municipal council is holding its sessions. During the night
of August 9-10 both councils sit four hours simultaneously within a few
steps of each other.]

[Footnote 2644: Robespierre, "Seventh letter to his constituents," says:
"The sections... have been busy for more than a fortnight getting ready
for the last Revolution."]

[Footnote 2645: Robespierre, "Seventh letter to his
constituents"--Malouet, II. 233, 234.--Roederer, "Chronique des cinquante
jours."]

[Footnote 2646: Moniteur, XIII. 318, 319. The petition is drawn up
apparently by people who are beside themselves. "If we did not rely
on you, I would not answer for the excesses to which our despair would
carry us! We would bring on ourselves all the horrors of civil war,
provided we could, on dying, drag along with us some of our cowardly
assassins!"----The representatives, it must be noted, talk in the same
vein. La Source exclaims: "The members here, like yourselves, call for
vengeance!"--Thuriot: "The crime is atrocious!"]

[Footnote 2647: Taine is describing a basic trait of human nature,
something we see again and again whether our ancestors attacked small,
harmless neighboring nations, witches, renegades, Jews, or religious
people of another faith.(SR).]

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