Then took place between herself and her husband a deliberation, apparently impartial, in order to decide whether they should bury themselves in the country, or should return to Paris.

But the ambition of the one, and the ardent desire of the other, had decided, unknown to, and before, either.
The most trifling pretext was sufficient for their impatience.

In the month of December they were again installed in Paris.
It was the period when all their friends arrived.

Petion had just been elected _maire_, and was creating a republic in the _commune_.
Robespierre, excluded from the Legislative Assembly by the law which forbade the re-election of the members of the Constituent Assembly, found a tribune in the Jacobins.

Brissot assumed Buzot's place in the new Assembly, and his reputation, as a public writer and statesman, brought around him and his doctrines the young Girondists, who had arrived from their department, with the ardour of their age, and the impulse of a second revolutionary tide.