His principles and his conduct were in opposition; he was honest, and yet seemed to betray; whilst he struggled with regret from duty to the monarchy, his heart was in the republic.

Protector of the throne, he was at the same time its bugbear.
One life can only be devoted to one cause.

Monarchy and republicanism had the same esteem, the same wrongs in his mind, and he served for and against both.

He died without having seen either of them triumphant, but he died virtuous and popular.

He had, beside his private virtues, a public virtue, which will ever be a pardon to his faults, and immortality to his name; he had before all, more than all, and after all, the feeling, constancy, and moderation of the Revolution.
Such was the man and such the army on which reposed the executive power, the safety of Paris, the constitutional throne, and the life of the king.
XXIII.
Thus on the 1st of June, 1791, were parties situated, such the men and things in the midst of which the irresistible spirit of a vast social renovation advanced with occult and continuous impulse.