She was at once the charm of his misfortunes and the genius of his destruction; she conducted him step by step to the scaffold, but she ascended it with him.
XV.
The right side in the National Assembly consisted of men, the natural opponents of the movement, the nobility and higher clergy.

All, however, were not of the same rank nor the same title.

Seditions are found amongst the lower rank, revolutions in the higher.

Seditions are but the angry workings of the people--revolutions are the ideas of the epoch.
Ideas begin in the head of the nation.

The French Revolution was a generous thought of the aristocracy.