Three cities were besieged and on the point of being burnt down by the country people.

The threatened civil war seemed the prelude to the counter-revolution.
"See," exclaimed Isnard, "whither the toleration and impunity you have preached, conduct you!" Isnard, deputy of Provence, was the son of a perfumer of Grasse.

His father had educated him for a literary life, and not for business.

He had studied politics in the antiquities of Greece and Rome.

He had in his mind the idea of one of the Gracchi; he had his courage in his soul and his tone in his voice.