No more jacqueries either rural or urban, no more proscriptions or persecutions and legal or illegal spoliations, no more intestine and social wars waged with pikes or by decrees, no more conquests and confiscations made by Frenchmen against each other.

With universal and unutterable relief people emerge from the barbarous and anarchical regime which reduced them to living from one day to another, and return to the pacific and regular regime which permits them to count on the morrow and make provision for it.

After ten years of harassing subjection to the incoherent absolutism of unstable despotism, here, for the first time, they find a rational and stable government, or, at least, a reasonable, tolerable, and fixed degree of it.

The First Consul is carrying out his declarations and he has declared that "The Revolution has ended."[3112] III.

Return of the Emigres.
Lasting effect of revolutionary laws .-- Condition of the Emigres .-- Progressive and final amnesty .-- They return .-- They recover a portion of their possessions .-- Many of them enter the new hierarchy .-- Indemnities for them incomplete.
The main thing now is to dress the severe wounds it has made and which are still bleeding, with as little torture as possible, for it has cut down to the quick, and its amputations, whether foolish or outrageous, have left sharp pains or mute suffering in the social organism.
One hundred and ninety-two thousand names have been inscribed on the list of emigres[3113] the terms of the law, every emigre is civilly dead, and his possessions have become the property of the Republic;" if he dared return to France, the same law condemned him to death; there could be no appeal, petition, or respite; it sufficed to prove identity and the squad of executioners was at once ordered out.