But the endurance of the victims is exhausted sooner than the cruelty of the executioner.

How could it be expected that a courageous and proud princess, who had been constantly surrounded by the adulation of the court, could love the Revolution that was the instrument of her humiliation and her torture?
or see in this indifferent and cruel nation a people worthy of empire and of liberty?
XIV.
When all his measures with the court were concerted, Dumouriez no longer hesitated to leap over the space that divided the king and the extreme party, and to give the government the form of pure patriotism.

He made overtures to the Jacobins, and boldly presented himself at their sitting the next day.

The chamber was thronged, and the apparition of Dumouriez struck the tribunes with mute astonishment.

His martial figure and the impetuosity of his conduct won for him at once the favour of the Assembly; for no one suspected that so much audacity concealed so much stratagem, and they saw in him only the minister who threw himself into the arms of the people, and every one hastened to receive him.
It was the moment when the _bonnet rouge_, the symbol of extreme opinion, a species of livery worn by the demagogues and flatterers of the people, had been almost unanimously adopted by the Jacobins.