sure des lois."]

[Footnote 3351: Buchez et Roux, 93. Session of the Jacobin Club, April
21, 1793.]

[Footnote 3352: Schmidt, "Tableaux de la revolution Francaise," II.4
(Report of Dutard, June 6, 1793.)--The mental traits of the Jacobins
form a contrast and are fully visible in the following speeches: "We
desire despotically a popular constitution." (Address of the Paris
Jacobin Club to the clubs in the departments, Jan. 7, 1793.)--Buchez
et Roux, XXIII. 288--Ibid., 274. (Speech by Legros in the Jacobin Club,
Jan. 1.) "Patriots are not counted; they go by weight... One patriot in
a scale weights more than 100,000 aristocrats. One Jacobin weights
more than 10,000 Feuillants. One republican weights more than 100,000
monarchists. One patriot of the Mountain weights more than 100,000
Brissotins. Hence I conclude that the convention should not be stopped
by the large number of votes against the death-sentence of Louis XVI.,
(and that) even (if there should be) but a minority of the nation
desiring Capet's death."--"Applauded." (I am obliged to correct the last
sentence, as it would otherwise be obscure.)]

[Footnote 3353: Buzot, "Memoires," 33: "The majority of French people
yearned after royalty and the Constitution of 1790. This was the
strongest feeling, and especially at Paris.. This people is only
republican because it is threatened by the guillotine.. All its desires,
all its hopes incline to the constitution of 1791."--Schmidt, I. 232
(Dutard, May 16). Dutard, an old advocate and friend of Garat, is one
of those rare men who see facts behind words; clear-sighted, energetic,
active, abounding in practical counsels, and deserving of a better chief
than Garat.]

[Footnote 3354: Schmidt, ibid., I. 173, 179 (May 1, 1793).]

[Footnote 3355: "La Demagogie a en Paris en 1793," p.152. Dauban
("Diurnal de Beaulieu," April 17).--"Archives Nationales," AF II. 45
(report by the police, May 20). "The dearness of supplies is the leading
cause of agitation and complaints."--(Ib., May 24). "The calm which now
appear to prevail in Paris will soon be disturbed if the prices of the
prime necessities of life do not shortly diminish."--(Ibid., May 25).
"Complaints against dear food increase daily end this circumstance looks
as if it might become one of the motives of forthcoming events."]

[Footnote 3356: Schmidt, I. 198 (Dutard, May 9).]

[Footnote 3357: Schmidt, I. 350; II. 6 (Dutard, May 30, June 7 and 8).]

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