The clergy, which is the people, and desires to reconcile the democracy with the church, lends him its influence, in order to destroy the double aristocracy of the nobility and bishops.
All that had been built by antiquity and cemented by ages fell in a few months.

Mirabeau alone preserved his presence of mind in the midst of this ruin.

His character of tribune ceases, that of the statesman begins, and in this he is even greater than in the other.

There, when all else creep and crawl, he acts with firmness, advancing boldly.

The Revolution in his brain is no longer a momentary idea--it is a settled plan.