CHAPTER I.THE JACOBINS COME INTO IN POWER.
The Elections Of 1791 .-- Proportion Of Places Gained By Them.
In June, 1791, and during the five following months, the class of active citizens[2101] are convoked to elect their representatives, which, as we know, according to the law, are of every kind and degree.

In the first place, there are 40,000 members of electoral colleges of the second degree and 745 deputies.

Next, there are one-half of the administrators of 83 departments, one-half of the administrators of 544 districts, one-half of the administrators of 41,000 communes, and finally, in each municipality, the mayor and syndic-attorney.

Then in each department they have to elect the president of the criminal court and the prosecuting-attorney, and, throughout France, officers of the National Guard; in short, almost the entire body of the agents and depositories of legal authority.

The garrison of the public citadel is to be renewed, which is the second and even the third time since 1789 .-- At each time the Jacobins have crept into the place, in small bands, but this time they enter in large bodies.