It knows the two Lameths, La Fayette, Barnave, Duport, and the others who first figured in the Jacobin assembly.

'What,' the court asked itself, 'is the aim of all these men?
their aim was to be elevated to rank and station, by the voice of the people, and by the gales of popularity, of command of the ministers, of gold: what they needed was court favour to serve as the sails of their ambition; and, wanting these sails, they use the oars of the people.

Let us prove to Lameth and Barnave that they will not be re-elected, that they cannot fill any important place before four years have passed away.

They will be indignant, and return to our party.

I saw Alexandre and Theodore Lameth the evening of the day on which Robespierre's motion of the non-re-eligibility was carried.