205, 348.)] [Footnote 2227: Moniteur, XII.

393 (session of May 15, speech by Isnard): "The Constituent Assembly only half dared do what it had the power to do.

It has left in the field of liberty, even around the very roots of the young constitutional tree, the old roots of despotism and of the aristocracy...

It has bound us to the trunk of the constitutional tree, like powerless victims given up to the rage of their enemies."-- --Etienne Dumont saw truly the educational defects peculiar to the party.

He says, apropos of Madame Roland: "I found in her too much of that distrustful despotism which belongs to ignorance of the world..