(Apropos of Louis XVI. who, refraining from defending himself,
left the Tuileries and took refuge in the Assembly on the 10th of
August.) "He came amongst you; he forced his way here.... He resorted to
the bosom of the legislature; his soldiers burst into the asylum.. .. He
made his way, so to say, by sword thrusts into the bowels of his country
that he might find a place of concealment."]

[Footnote 3269: Particularly in the long report on Danton containing a
historic survey of the factions, (Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 76,) and
the report on the general police, (Ibid., 304,) with another historic
document of the same order. "Brissot and Ronsin (were) recognized
royalists.. .. Since Necker a system of famine has been devised....
Necker had a hand in the Orleans faction.... Double representation (of
the Third Estate) was proposed for it." Among other charges made against
Danton; after the fusillade on the Champ de Mars in July, 1791 "You
went to pass happy days at Arcis-sur-Aube, if it is possible for a
conspirator against his country to be happy.... When you knew that the
tyrant's fall was prepared and inevitable you returned to Paris on the
9th of August. You wanted to go to bed on that evil night.... Hatred,
you said, is insupportable to me and (yet) you said to us 'I do not like
Marat,' etc." There is an apostrophe of nine consecutive pages against
Danton, who is absent.]

[Footnote 3270: Buchez et Roux, Ibid., 312. "Liberty emanated from the
bosom of tempests; its origin dates with that of the world issuing
out of chaos along with man, who is born dissolved in tears."
(Applause.)--Ibid., 308. Cf. his portrait, got up for effect, of the
"revolutionary who is a treasure of good sense and probity."]

[Footnote 3271: Ibid., 312. "Liberty is not the chicanery of a palace;
it is rigidity towards evil."]

[Footnote 3272: Barere, "Memoires," I. 347. "Saint-Just... discussed
like a vizier."]

[Footnote 3273: Buchez et Roux, XXXII., 314. "Are the lessons furnished
by history, the examples afforded by all great men, lost to the
universe? These all counsel us to lead obscure lives; the lowly cot and
virtue form the grandeurs of this world. Let us seek our habitations on
the banks of streams, rock the cradles of our children and educate them
in Disinterestedness and Intrepidity."--As to his political or economic
capacity and general ideas, read his speeches and his "Institutions,"
(Buchez et Roux, XXVIII., 133; XXX., 305, XXXV