In it are found the ordinary ideas of a Jacobin in relation to history: "Can we ignore, that it is ever the people of Paris which, through its murmurings and righteous insurrections against the oppressive system of many of our kings, has forced them to entertain milder sentiments regarding the relief of the French people, and principally of the tiller of the soil ?..

Without the energy of Paris, Paris and France would now be inhabited solely by slaves, while this beautiful soil would present an aspect as wild and deserted as that of the Turkish empire or that of Germany," which has led us "to confer still greater lustre on this Revolution, by re-establishing on earth the ancient Athenian and other Grecian republics in all their purity.
Distinctions among the early people of the earth did not exist; early family ties bound people together who had no ancient founders or origin; they had no other laws in their republics but those which, so to say, inspired them with those sentiments of fraternity experienced by them in the cradle of primitive populations."] [Footnote 1254: Barbaroux, "Memoires" (Ed.

Dauban), 336 .-- Gregoire, "Memoires," I.410.] [Footnote 1255: "La Revolution Francaise," by Quinet (extracts from the unpublished "Memoires" of Baudot), II.

209, 211, 421, 620 .-- Guillon de Montleon I.445 (speech by Chalier, in the Lyons Central Club, March 23, 1793).

"They say that the sans-culottes will go on spilling their blood.
This is only the talk of aristocrats.