All vigor of thought seems excluded from expression.....

Where there is much polish of character there is little argument."-- Cabinet des Estampes.

See engravings of the day by Moreau, Prieur, Monet, representing the opening of the States-General.

All the figures have a graceful, elegant, and genteel air.] [Footnote 2107: Marmontel, book XIII.

237 .-- Malouet, I.261 .-- Ferrieres, I.19.] [Footnote 2108: Gouverneur Morris, January 24, 1790 .-- Likewise (De Ferrieres, I.71) the decree on the abolition of nobility was not the order of the day, and was carried by surprise.] [Footnote 2109: Ferrieres, I.189 .-- Dumont, 146.] [Footnote 2110: Letter of Mirabeau to Sieyes, June 11, 1790.