the partition of communal possessions,[26112] 22.

the confiscation and sale of property belonging to emigres,[26113] 23.

the relegation of their fathers, mothers, wives and children into the interior, 24.

the banishment or transportation of unsworn ecclesiastics,[26114] 25.

the establishment of easy divorce at two months' notice and on demand of one of the parties,[26115] in short, every measure is taken which tend to disturb property, break up the family, persecute conscience, suspend the law, pervert justice, and rehabilitate crime.
laws are promulgated to deliver: * the judicial system, * the full control of the nation, * the selection of the members of the future omnipotent Assembly, * in short, the entire government, to an autocratic, violent minority, which, having risked all to grab the dictatorship, dares all to keep it.[26116] VIII .-- State of Paris in the Interregnum.
The mass of the population .-- Subaltern Jacobins .-- The Jacobin leaders.
Let us stop a moment to contemplate this great city and its new rulers .-- From afar, Paris seems a club of 700,000 fanatics, vociferating and deliberating on the public squares; near by, it is nothing of the sort.