11, speech by Buzot).

"There is not a man in this town who owns anything, that is not afraid of being insulted and struck in his section if he dares raise his voice against the ruling power...

The permanent assemblies of Paris consist of a small number of men who have succeeded in keeping other citizens away."-- Schmidt, I.235 (Dutard, May 28): "Another plan would be to drill young men in the use of the staff.

One must be a sans-culotte, must live with sans-culottes, to discover the value of expedients of this kind.

There is nothing the sans-culotte fears as much as a truncheon.