There was the safety of the Revolution and its legitimacy.

In wanting resolution it failed in prudence.
VIII.
But, they say with Barnave, France is monarchical by its geography as by its character, and the contest arises in minds directly between the monarchy and the republic.

Let us make ourselves understood:-- Geography is of no party; Rome and Carthage had no frontiers; Genoa and Venice had no territories.

It is not the soil which determines the nature of the constitutions of people, it is time.

The geographical objection of Barnave fell to the ground a year afterwards, before the prodigies in France in 1792.