The air is dark as with a thunder-cloud, and there may be such a storm sweep over France as there has not been since the days of the Jacquerie." "But the people should be contented," M.du Tillet said; "they have had all the privileges they ever possessed given back to them." "Yes," the marquis assented, "and there lies the danger.

It is one thing or the other.

If as soon as the temper of the third estate had been seen the king's guards had entered and cleared the place and closed the door, as Cromwell did when the parliament was troublesome to him in England, that would have been one way.

Paris would have been troublesome, we might have had again the days of the Fronde, but in the end the king's party would have won.
"However, that was not the way tried.

They began by concessions, they go on with concessions, and each concession is made the ground for more.