Every crime might be condoned, provided that the men now in power at Paris saved the country.

Better their tyranny than the vengeance of the emigrant _noblesse_.

Such was the instinct of most Frenchmen, and it saved France.
As an _expose_ of keen policy and all-dominating opportunism, "Le Souper de Beaucaire" is admirable.

In a national crisis anything that saves the State is justifiable--that is its argument.

The men of the Mountain are abler and stronger than the Girondins: therefore the Marseillais are foolish not to bow to the men of the Mountain.