"I saw counselor Duport, who was a fanatic, and not a bad man, with two or three others like him, exclaim: 'Terror! Terror! What a pity that it has become necessary!'"] [Footnote 1234: Lafayette, "Memoires" (in relation to Messieurs de Lameth and their friends) .-- According to a squib of the day: "What Duport thinks, Barnave says and Lameth does"-- This trio was named the Triumvirate.

Mirabeau, a government man, and a man to whom brutal disorder was repugnant, called it the Triumgueusat.

(A trinity of shabby fellows)] [Footnote 1235: Moniteur, V.212, 583.

(Report and speech of Dupont de Nemours, sessions of July 31 and September 7, 1790.)--Vagabonds and ruffians begin to play their parts in Paris on the 27th of April, 1789 (the Reveillon affair) .-- Already on the 30th of July, 1789, Rivarol wrote: "Woe to whoever stirs up the dregs of a nation! The century Enlightenment has not touched the populace!"-- In the preface of his future dictionary, he refers to his articles of this period: "There may be seen the precautions I took to prevent Europe from attributing to the French nation the horrors committed by the crowd of ruffians which the Revolution and the gold of a great personage had attracted to the capital."-- "Letter of a deputy to his constituents," published by Duprez, Paris, in the beginning of 1790 (cited by M.de Segur, in the Revue de France, September 1, 1880).

It relates to the maneuvers for forcing a vote in favor of confiscating clerical property.