The wretched, for the first time, discover an issue: they dash through it, at first in driblets, then in a mass, and rebellion becomes as universal as resignation was in the past.
II .-- Expectations the second cause Separation and laxity of the administrative forces .-- Investigations of local assemblies.

--The people become aware of their condition .-- Convocation of the States- General .-- Hope is born.

The coincidence of early Assemblies with early difficulties.
It is just through this breach that hope steals like a beam of light, and gradually finds its way down to the depths below.

For the last fifty years it has been rising, and its rays, which first illuminated the upper class in their splendid apartments in the first story, and next the middle class in their entresol and on the ground floor.

They have now for two years penetrated to the cellars where the people toil, and even to the deep sinks and obscure corners where rogues and vagabonds and malefactors, a foul and swarming herd, crowd and hide themselves from the persecution of the law .-- To the first two provincial assemblies instituted by Necker in 1778 and 1779, Lomenie de Brienne has in 1787 just added nineteen others; under each of these are assemblies of the arrondissement, under each assembly of the arrondissement are parish assemblies[1108].