Two triumphant tribunes were elevated by the people.

In this was all the future.

The Constituent Assembly, begun in an insurrection of principles, ended as a sedition.

Was it the error of those principles--was it the fault of the Constituent Assembly?
We will examine the question at the end of the last book of this volume, in casting a retrospect over the acts of the Constituent Assembly; till then we will delay this judgment, in order not to interfere with the progress of the recital..