A second Chamber would have been the refuge of the aristocrats."] [Footnote 2217: Lenin should later create an elite, an aristocracy which, under his leadership was to become the Communist party.

Lenin could not have imagined or at least would not have been concerned that the leadership of this party would fall into the hands of tyrants later, under the pressure of age and corruption, to be replaced by the KGB and later the FSB.

(SR.)] [Footnote 2218: "De Bouille," p.

50: "All the old noble families, save two or three hundred, were ruined."] [Footnote 2219: Cf.

Doniol, "La Revolution et la Feodalite."] [Footnote 2220: Moniteur, sitting of August 6, 1789.