with the Saxons, "the angry Francs rush upon him,
revile him, and threaten to kill him if he declines to accompany them.
Upon which he puts himself at their head."]

[Footnote 3102: Social condition and degree of culture are often
indicated orthographically.--Granier de Cassagnac, II..480. Becard,
commanding the expedition which brought back the prisoners from Orleans,
signs himself: "Becard, commandant congointement aveque M. Fournier
generalle. "--"Archives Nationales," F7, 4426. Letter of Chemin,
commissioner of the Gravilliers section, to Santerre, Aug.11, 1792.
"Mois Charles Chemin commissaire... fait part a Monsieur Santaire
generale de la troupe parisiene que le nomme Hingray cavaliers de la
gendarmeris nationalle.. me delares qu'ille sestes trouves aux jourduis
11 aoux avec une home attaches a la cours aux Equris; quille lui aves
dis quiere 800 home a peupres des sidevant garde du roy etes tous pres a
fondre sure Paris pour donaire du secour a naux rebelle et a signer avec
moi la presante."]

[Footnote 3103: On the 19th of March, 1871, I met in the Rue de Varennes
a man with two guns on his shoulder who had taken part in the pillage of
the Ecole d'Etat-major and was on his way home. I said to him: "But this
is civil war, and you will let the Prussians in Paris."--"I'd rather
have the Prussians than Thiers. Thiers is Prussian on the inside!"]

[Footnote 3104: Today, 115 years after these words were written, we have
seen others, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Tse Tung, etc
following in the Jacobin's footsteps. Nobles, Bourgeois, Jews and other
undesirables have been methodically put away. The sheeplike majority
did not read Taine or did not profit from his warnings while most of the
great tyrants learned from him or from the events he described (SR.)]

[Footnote 3105: Moniteur, Nov. 14, 1792.]

[Footnote 3106: "Archives Nationales," F7, 4426. Letter of the police
administrators, Aug. 11. Declaration of Delaunay, Aug. 12.]

[Footnote 3107: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 59 (session of Aug. 12) Speech by
Leprieur at the bar of the house.]

[Footnote 3108: Buchez et Roux, XVII. 47.--Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 31.
Speech by Robespierre at the bar of the Assembly in the name of the
commune, Aug. 15.]

[Footnote 3109: Brissot, in his report on Robespierre's petition.--The
names of the principal judges elected show its character:
Fouquier-Tinville, Osselin, Coffinhal.]

[Footnote 3110: Buchez et Roux, XVII.91 (Aug. 17)