Edmond Bire.

"La Legende des Girondins," on the part of the Girondists in all these odious measures.] [Footnote 3344: These traits are well defined in the charges of the popular party against them made by Fabre d'Eglantine.

Maillan, "Memoires," 323.

(Speech of Fabre d'Eglantine at the Jacobin Club in relation to the address of the commune, demanding the expulsion of the Twenty-Two.) "You have often taken the people to task; you have even sometimes tried to flatter them; but there was about this flattery that aristocratic air of coldness and dislike which could deceive nobody.
Your ways of a bourgeois patrician are always perceptible in your words and acts; you never wanted to mix with the people.

Here is your doctrine in few words: after the people have served in revolutions they must return to dust, be of no account, and allow themselves to be led by those who know more than they and who are willing to take the trouble to lead them.