"The people so wills it, and its head is of more account than that of crowned despots.

That head is the genealogical tree of the nation, and before that robust head the feeble reed must bend!" He has already recited the fable of "The Oak and the Bulrush," and he knows the names of Demosthenes, Cicero, and Catiline.

It seems to be the composition of a school master turned public letter writer, at a penny a page.] [Footnote 2539: Hua, "Memoires," 134.] [Footnote 2540: Moniteur, XII.

718.] [Footnote 2541: "Chronique des cinquante jours," by Roederer, syndic-attorney of the department.] [Footnote 2542: Hua, 134 .-- Bourrienne, "Memoires," I.49.

(He was with Bonaparte in a restaurant, rue Saint-Honore, near the Palais-Royal.) "On going out we saw a troop coming from the direction of the market, which Bonaparte estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 men, all in rags and armed in the oddest manner, yelling and shouting the grossest provocations, and turning towards the Tuileries.