Alongside of the talking authorities we have the veritable force that acts, for it is the only one which does act.

As formerly the praetorian guard of the Caesars in Rome, or the Turkish guards of the Caliphs of Baghdad, it is henceforth master of the capital, and through the capital, of the Nation.
III .-- Its leaders .-- Their committee .-- Methods for arousing the crowd.
As the troops are so are their leaders.

Bulls must have drovers to conduct them, one degree superior to the brute but only one degree, dressed, talking and acting in accordance with his occupation, without dislikes or scruples, naturally or willfully hardened, fertile in jockeying and in the expedients of the slaughterhouse, themselves belonging to the people or pretending to belong to them.

Santerre is a brewer of the Faubourg St.Antoine, commander of the battalion of" Enfants Trouves," tall, stout and ostentatious, with stentorian lungs, shaking the hand of everybody he meets in the street, and when at home treating everybody to a drink paid for by the Duke of Orleans.

Legendre is a choleric butcher, who even in the Convention maintains his butchering traits.