rt of his own, of which he
publishes and abstract in the Chronique de Paris.]

[Footnote 3342: Buchez et Roux, XXIV. 102. Condorcet's abstract contains
the following extraordinary sentence: "In all free countries the
influence of the populace is feared with reason; but give all men the
same rights and there will be no populace."]

[Footnote 3343: Cf. Edmond Bire. "La Legende des Girondins," on the part
of the Girondists in all these odious measures.]

[Footnote 3344: These traits are well defined in the charges of
the popular party against them made by Fabre d'Eglantine. Maillan,
"Memoires," 323. (Speech of Fabre d'Eglantine at the Jacobin Club in
relation to the address of the commune, demanding the expulsion of the
Twenty-Two.) "You have often taken the people to task; you have even
sometimes tried to flatter them; but there was about this flattery that
aristocratic air of coldness and dislike which could deceive nobody.
Your ways of a bourgeois patrician are always perceptible in your words
and acts; you never wanted to mix with the people. Here is your doctrine
in few words: after the people have served in revolutions they must
return to dust, be of no account, and allow themselves to be led by
those who know more than they and who are willing to take the trouble to
lead them. You, Brissot, and especially you, Petion, you have received
us formally, haughtily, and with reserve. You extend to us one finger,
but you never grasp the whole hand. You have not even refused yourselves
that keen delight of the ambitious, insolence and disdain."]

[Footnote 3345: Buzot, "Memoires," 78.]

[Footnote 3346: Edmond Bire, "La legende des Girondins." (Inedited
fragments of the memoirs of Petion and Barbaroux, quoted by Vatel in
"Charlotte Corday and the Girondists," III. 472, 478.)]

[Footnote 3347: Buchez et Roux, XXVI. A financial plan offered by the
department of Herault adopted by Cambon and rejected by the Girondists.]

[Footnote 3348: Buchez et Roux, XXV. Speech by Vergniaud (April 10),
pp. 376, 377, 378. "An effort is made to accomplish the Revolution by
terror. I would accomplish it through love."]

[Footnote 3349: Maillan, 22.]

[Footnote 3350: Buchez et Roux, XXIV. 109. Plan of a constitution
presented by Condorcet. Declaration of rights, article 32. "In every
free government the mode of resistance to different acts of oppression
should be regulated by law."--Ibid., 136. Title VIII. Of the
Constitution "De la Cen