the power of voice necessary to captivate them; for the people do not
comprehend intellectual force. A colossal stature and a sonorous voice
are two indispensable requisites for the favourites of the people:
Camille Desmoulins was small, thin, and had but a feeble voice, that
seemed to "pipe and whistle in the wind" after the tones of Danton, who
possessed the roar of the populace.

Petion enjoyed the highest esteem of the anarchists, but his official
legality excused him from openly fomenting the disorder, which it was
sufficient that he desired. Nothing could be done without him, and he
was an accomplice. After them came Santerre, the commander of the
battalion of the faubourg St. Antoine. Santerre, son of a Flemish
brewer, and himself a brewer, was one of those men that the people
respect because they are of themselves, and whose large fortune is
forgiven them on account of their familiarity. Well known to the
workmen, of whom he employed great numbers in his brewery; and
by the populace, who on Sundays frequented his wine and beer
establishments--Santerre distributed large sums of money, as well as
quantities of provisions, to the poor; and, at a moment of famine, had
distributed three hundred thousand francs' worth of bread (12,000_l_.).
He purchased his popularity by his beneficence; he had conquered it, by
his courage, at the storming of the Bastille; and he increased it by his
presence at every popular tumult. He was of the race of those Belgian
brewers who intoxicated the people of Ghent to rouse them to revolt.

The butcher, Legendre, was to Danton what Danton was to Mirabeau, a step
lower in the abyss of sedition. Legendre had been a sailor during ten
years of his life, and had the rough and brutal manners of his two
callings, a savage look, his arms covered with blood, his language
merciless, yet his heart naturally good. Involved since '89 in all the
Revolutionary movements, the waves of this agitation had elevated him to
a certain degree of authority. He had founded, under Danton, the
Cordeliers club, the club of _coups de main_, as the Jacobins was the
club of radical theories; and he convulsed it to its very centre, by his
eloquence untaught and unpolished. He compared himself to the peasant of
the Danube. Always more ready to strike than to speak, Legendre's
gesture crushed before he spoke. He was the mace of Danton. Huguenin,
one of those men who roll from profession to profession, on the
acclivity o