But history does not judge like fortune, and it is the heart rather than success that makes the hero.

The romantic and adventurous character of Gustavus is still the greatness of a restless and struggling soul in the pettiness of its destiny.

His death excited a shriek of joy amongst the Jacobins, who deified Ankastroem; but their burst of delight on learning the end of Gustavus, proved how insincere was their affected contempt for this enemy of the constitution.
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These two obstacles removed, nothing now kept France and Europe on terms but the feeble cabinet of Louis XVI.

The impatience of the nation, the ambition of the Girondists, and the resentment of the constitutionalists wounded through M.de Narbonne, united them to overthrow this cabinet.
Brissot, Vergniaud, Guadet, Condorcet, Gensonne, Petion, their friends in the Assembly, the council-chamber of Madame Roland, their Seids amongst the Jacobins balanced between two ambitions--equally open to their abilities--to destroy power or seize on it.

Brissot counselled this latter measure.