"Mirabeau," says he, "is a host in himself; and I should not be surprised if by his own eloquence and popularity only he were to carry it; and yet I regret that he has taken the lead in it.

The cause is so lovely, that even ambition, abstractedly considered, is too impure to take it under its protection, and not to sully it.

It should have been placed in the hands of the most virtuous man in France.

This man is the Duc de la Rochefoucauld.

But you cannot alter things now.