In the next place, they are too sensible, to docile, and too honest to go and lord it over their magistrates in the Hotel-de-ville, or regard themselves in their various sections as the sovereign people.

Moreover, they are disgusted with all this bawling.

Lastly, the streets of Paris, especially at night, are not safe; owing to so much outdoor politics, there is a great increase of caning and of knocking down.

Accordingly, for a long time, they do not attend at the clubs, nor are they seen in the galleries of the National Assembly; nor will they be seen again at the sessions of the municipality, nor at the meetings of the sections .-- Nothing, on the other hand, is more attractive to the idle tipplers of the cafes, to bar-room oracles, loungers, and talkers, living in furnished rooms,[2640] to the parasites and refractory of the social army, to all who have left the social structures and unable to get back again, who want to tear things to pieces, and, for lack of a private career, establish one for themselves in public.

Permanent sessions, even at night, are not too long either for them, or for lazy Federates, for disordered intellects, and for the small troop of genuine fanatics.