It was he who, two days before the 20th of June, amidst the most brutal public excitement, admired "the calmness" and rationality of the multitude; "considering the way people interpret events, it might be supposed that they had given some hours of each day to the study of analysis." It is he who, two days after the 20th of June, extolled the red cap in which the head of Louis XVI.

had been muffled.

"That crown is as good as any other.

Marcus Aurelius would not have despised it."[2208]--Such is the discernment and practical judgment of the leaders; from these one can form an opinion of the flock.

It consists of novices arriving from the provinces and bringing with them the principles and prejudices of the newspaper.