Aristocrat by birth, he, like Mirabeau, had passed over to the camp of the people.

Hated by the court, he hated it as do all renegades.

He had become one of the people, in order to convert the people into the army of philosophy.

He wanted of the republic no more than was sufficient to overturn its prejudices.

Ideas once become victorious,--he would willingly have confided it to the control of a constitutional monarchy.