It is admitted that the people are children, that they err only through ignorance, that faith must be had in their repentance, and, as soon as they return to order, they must be received with paternal effusions .-- The truth is, that the child is a blind Colossus, exasperated by sufferings.

hence whatever it takes hold of is shattered--not only the local wheels of the provinces, which, if temporarily deranged, may be repaired, but even the incentive at the center which puts the rest in motion, and the destruction of which will throw the whole machinery into confusion.
***** [Footnote 1101: Marmontel, "Memoires," II.

221 .-- Albert Babeau, "Histoire de la Revolution Francaise," I.91, 187.

(Letter by Huez Mayor of Troyes, July 30, 1788.)--Archives Nationales, H.1274.

(Letter by M.
de Caraman, April 22, 1789.) H.942 (Cahier des demandes des Etats de Languedoc) .-- Buchez et Roux, "Histoire Parlementaire," I.283.] [Footnote 1102: See "The Ancient Regime," p.34.Albert Babeau, I.91.
(The Bishop of Troyes gives 12,000 francs, and the chapter 6,000, for the relief workshops.)] [Footnote 1103: "The Ancient Regime," 350, 387 .-- Floquet, "Histoire du Parlement de Normandie," VII.