"People of France," says an orator, "citizens of Paris, all generous Frenchmen, and you, our fellow citizens--virtuous, intelligent women, bringing your gentle influence into the sanctuary of the law--behold the guarantee of peace which the legislature presents to you!"-- We seem to be witnessing the last act of an opera.] [Footnote 2211: Ibid., XII.

230 (sessions of April 26 and May 5).

Report and speech by Francois de Nantes.

The whole speech, a comic treasure from the beginning to the end, ought to have been quoted: "Tell me, pontiff of Rome, what your sentiments will be when you welcome your worthy and faithful co-operators ?..

I behold your sacred hands, ready to launch those pontifical thunderbolts, which, etc...