He has constantly shouted against the civil list, and the civil list has been suppressed.
At last, lodged in the house belonging to Louis XVI., he told him to his face that his head ought to be struck off, and the head of Louis XVI.
has fallen."-- Here, in a nutshell, is the history and the portrait of all the others; it is not surprising that genuine Jacobins see the Revolution in the same way as M.Saule,[33115] * when, for them, the sole legitimate Constitution is the definitive establishment of their omnipotence; * when they designate as order and justice the boundless despotism they exercise over property and life; * when their instinct, as narrow and violent as that of a Turkish bey, comprises only extreme and destructive measures, arrests, deportations, confiscations, executions, all of which is done with head erect, with delight as if a patriotic duty, by right of a moral priesthood, in the name of the people, either directly and tumultuously with their own hands, or indirectly and legally by the hands of their docile representatives.
This is the sum of their political system, from which nothing will detach them; for they are anchored fast to it with the full weight and with every hold upon it that characterizes their immorality, ignorance and folly.

Through the hypocritical glitter of compulsory parades, their one fixed idea imposes itself on the orator that he may utter it in tirades, on the legislator that he may put it into decrees, on the administrator that he may put it in practice, and, from their opening campaign up to their final victory, they will tolerate but one variation, and this variation is trifling.

In September, 1792, they declare by their acts: "Those whose opinions are opposed to ours will be assassinated, and their gold, jewels and pocketbooks will belong to us." In November, 1793, they are to declare through the official inauguration of the revolutionary government: "those whose opinions differ from ours will be guillotined and we shall be their heirs."[33116] Between this program, which is supported by the Jacobin population and the program of the Girondins which the majority in the Convention supports, between Condorcet's Constitution and the summary articles of M.Saule, it is easy to see which will prevail.

"These Parisian blackguards," says a Girondist, "take us for their valets![33117] Let a valet contradict his master and he is sure to lose his place.

From the first day, when the Convention in a body traversed the streets to begin its sessions, certain significant expressions enabled it to see into what hands it had fallen: "Why should so many folks come here to govern France," says a bystander, "haven't we enough in Paris ?"[33118] ***** [Footnote 3301: Any contempory Western reader take notice!! The proof of any Jacobin or Socialist or Communist take-over, surreptitious or open-handed, lies in their take-over of the important posts in politics, the judicial system, the media and the administration.