cites the
following answer of a Jacobin of 1851 to the judge d'instruction of
Rheims; on the objection being made to him that the Republic, as he
understood it, could not last long, he replied: "Possibly, but say it
lasts three months. That's long enough to fill one's pocket and belly
and rumple silk dresses?" Another of the same species said in 1871: "We
shall anyhow have a week's use of it." Observers of human nature will
find analogous details in the history of the Sepoy rebellion in India
against the English in 1803, also in the history of the Indians in the
United States. The September massacres in Paris and the history of
the combat of 1791 and 1792 have already provided us with the same
characteristic documents.]

[Footnote 33169: Alfred Lallier, "Les Fusillades de Nantes," P.23.
(Depositions of Picard, commander of the National Guards of the
escort.--Cf. the depositions of Jean Jounet, paver, and of Henri
Ferdinand, joiner.)]

[Footnote 33170: Sauzay, "Histoire de la Persecution Revolutionnaire
dans le Departement du Doubs," VII., 687. (Letter of Gregoire, December
24, 1796.) "An approximative calculation makes the number of the authors
of so many crimes three hundred thousand, for in each commune there were
about five or six of these ferocious brutes who, named Brutus, perfected
the art of removing seals, drowning and cutting throats. They consumed
immense amounts in constructing 'Mountains,' in reveling, and in fetes
every three months which, after the first parade, became parodies,
represented by three or four actors in them, and with no audience. These
consisted, finally, of a drum-beater and the musical officer; and the
latter, ashamed of himself, often concealed his scarf in his pocket, on
his way to the Temple of Reason. ... But these 300 000 brigands had 2 or
300 directors, members of the National convention, who cannot be called
anything but scoundrels, since the language provides no other epithet so
forcible."]

BOOK FOURTH. THE GOVERNED.

CHAPTER I. THE OPPRESSED.

I. Revolutionary Destruction.

Magnitude of revolutionary destructiveness.--The four ways
of effecting it.--Expulsion from the country through forced
emigration and legal banishment.--Number of those expelled.
--Privation of liberty.--Different sorts of imprisonment.
--Number and situation of those imprisoned.--Murders after
being tried, or without trial.--Number of those guillotined