The Assembly became in their hands a passive instrument, which they forced to serve them in the execution of their projects."-- They themselves do not lead, although they seem to lead.

The great brute, which has taken the bit in its mouth, holds on to it, and it's plunging becomes more violent.

Not only do both spurs which maddened it, I mean the desire for innovation and the daily scarcity of food, continue to prick it on.

But also the political hornets which, increasing by thousands, buzz around its ears.

And the license in which it revels for the first time, joined to the applause lavished upon it, urges it forward more violently each day.