All the clothing woven during the past centuries and with which civilization had dressed him, the last drapery of humanity, falls to the ground.

Nothing remains but the primitive animal, the ferocious, lewd gorilla supposed to be tamed, but which still subsists indefinitely and which a dictatorship, joined to drunkenness, revives in an uglier guise than in remotest times.
VIII.

Delirium.
Approach of madness .-- Loss of common-sense .-- Fabre, Gaston, Guiter, in the army of the Eastern Pyrenees .-- Baudot, Lebas, Saint-Just, and the predecessors and successors in the army of the Rhine .-- Furious excitement .-- Lebon at Arras, and Carrier at Nantes.
If intoxication is needed to awaken the brute, a dictatorship suffices to arouse the madman.

The mental equilibrium of most of these new sovereigns is disturbed; the distance between what the man once was and what he now is, is too great.

Formerly he was a petty lawyer, village doctor, or schoolmaster, an unknown mover of a resolution in a local club, and only yesterday he was one voter in the Convention out of seven hundred and fifty.