Mirabeau, in a word, was the reason of the people; and that is not yet the faith of humanity! IV.
Grand displays cast a veil of universal mourning over the secret sentiments which his death inspired to all parties.

Whilst the various belfries tolled his knell, and minute guns were fired; whilst, in a ceremony that had assembled two hundred thousand spectators, they awarded to a citizen the funeral obsequies of a monarch; whilst the Pantheon, to which they conveyed his remains, seemed scarcely a monument worthy of such ashes,--what was passing in the depths of men's hearts?
The king, who held Mirabeau's eloquence in pay, the queen, with whom he had nocturnal conferences, regretted him, perhaps, as the last means of safety: yet still he inspired them with more terror than confidence; and the humiliation of a crowned head demanding succour from a subject must have felt comforted at the removal of that destroying power which itself fell before the throne did.

The court was avenged by death for the affronts which it had undergone.

He was to the nobility merely an apostate from his order.

The climax of its shame must have been to be one day raised by him who had abased it.