This is the work of Versailles and of Paris; and there, at Paris as well as at Versailles, some, through lack of foresight and infatuation, and others, through blindness and indecision--the latter through weakness and the former through violence--all are laboring to accomplish it.
***** [Footnote 1301: Dusaulx, 374.

"I remarked that if there were a few among the people at that time who dared commit crime, there were several who wished it, and that every one endured it."-- " Archives Nationales," DXXIX, 3.

(Letter of the municipal authorities of Cremieu, Dauphiny, November 3, 1789.) "The care taken to lead them first to the cellars and to intoxicate them, can alone give a conception of the incredible excesses of rage to which they gave themselves up in the sacking and burning of the chateaux."] [Footnote 1302: Mercure de France, January 4, 1792.

("Revue politique de l'annee 1791," by Mallet du Pan.)] [Footnote 1303: Albert Babeau, I.206.

(Letter of the deputy Camuzet de Belombre, August 22, 1789.) The executive power is absolutely gone to-day."-- Gouverneur Morris, letter of July 31, 1789: "This country is now as near in a state of anarchy as it is possible for a community to be without breaking up."] [Footnote 1304: "Archives Nationales," H.1453.Letter of M.Amelot, July 24th; H.784, of M.de Langeron, October 16th and 18th .-- KK.
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