The Revolution" vol. II., pp. 46 and 323, vol.
III., ch I. Archives des Affaires Etrangeres. Vol. 332. (Letter by
Thiberge, Marseilles, Brumaire 14, year II.) "I have been to Marteygne,
a small town ten leagues from Marseilles, along with my colleague
Fournet; I found (je trouvee) seventeen patriots in a town of give
thousand population."--Ibid., (Letter by Regulus Leclerc, Bergues,
Brumaire 15, year II.) At Bergues, he says, "the municipality is
composed of traders with empty stores and brewers without beer since the
law of the maximum." Consequently there is universal lukewarmness, "only
forty persons being found to form a popular club, holding sessions as a
favor every five days.... Public spirit at Bergues is dead; fanaticism
rules."--Archives Nationales, F7, 7164 (Department of Var, reports of
year V. "General idea.")--"At Draguignan, out of seven thousand souls,
forty patriots, exclusifs, despised or dishonest; at Vidauban, nine or
ten exclusifs, favored by the municipality and who live freely without
their means being known; at Brignolles, frequent robberies on the road
by robbers said to have been very patriotic in the beginning of the
Revolution: people are afraid of them and dare not name them; at
Frejus, nine leading exclusifs who pass all their time in the
cafe."--Berryat-Saint-Prix, "La Justice Revolutionnaire," p.
146.--Brutus Thierry, grocer, member of the Rev. Com. Of Angers, said
that "in angers, there were not sixty revolutionaries."]

[Footnote 2222: Macaulay. "History of England," I., 152. "The Royalists
themselves confessed that, in every department of honest industry, the
discarded warriors prospered beyond other men, that none was charged
with any theft or robbery, that none was heard to ask an alms, and that,
if a baker, a mason, or a waggoner attracted notice by his diligence and
sobriety, he was in all probability one of Oliver's old soldiers."]

BOOK THIRD. THE MEN IN POWER.

CHAPTER I. PSYCHOLOGY OF THE JACOBIN LEADERS.

I. Marat.

Marat.--Disparity between his faculties and pretensions.
--The Maniac.--The Ambitious delirium.--Rage for persecution.
--The permanent nightmare.--Homicidal frenzy.

Three men among the Jacobins, Marat, Danton and Robespierre, had
deserved preeminence and held authority:--that is because they, due to
a deformity or warping of their minds and their hearts, met the required
conditions.--

Of the three, Marat is the most mons