As for the poor, they were meeting their match in the gilded youth of Paris, who with clubbed sticks asserted the right of the rich to be merry.

If the _sansculottes_ attempted to restore the days of the Terror, the National Guards of Paris were ready to sweep them back into the slums.
Such was their fate on May 20th, shortly after Buonaparte's arrival at Paris.

Any dreams which he may have harboured of restoring the Jacobins to power were dissipated, for Paris now plunged into the gaieties of the _ancien regime_.

The Terror was remembered only as a horrible nightmare, which served to add zest to the pleasures of the present.

In some circles no one was received who had not lost a relative by the guillotine.