The fanaticism of religion with one, the fanaticism of liberty with the other, impelled the two parties even to crimes.

The warmth of blood, the thirst of private vengeance, the heat of the climate, all added to civil passions.
The violences of Italian republics were all to be seen in the manners of this Italian colony, of this branch establishment of Rome on the banks of the Rhone.

The smaller states are, the more atrocious are their civil wars.

There opposite opinions become personal hatreds; contests are but assassinations.

Avignon commenced these wholesale assassinations by private murders.
On the 16th of October a gloomy agitation betrayed itself by the mobs of people collecting on various points, particularly consisting of persons enemies of the Revolution.