He addressed them, and so successfully as to change their rage into a no less exaggerated enthusiasm for humanity.

Animated by their new transports, they obliged the poor farmer, still pale and trembling, and whom they were just going to hang on its branches, to drink and dance along with them around the tree of liberty."] [Footnote 2382: Lacretelle, "Dix ans d'Epreuves," 78.

"The Girondists wanted to fashion a Roman people out of the dregs of Romulus, and, what is worse, out of the brigands of the 5th of October."] [Footnote 2383: These pages must have made a strong impression upon Lenin when he read them in the National Library in Paris around 1907.
(SR).] [Footnote 2384: Lafayette, I.442.

"The Girondists sought in the war an opportunity for attacking with advantage, the constitutionalists of 1791 and their institutions."-- Brissot (Address to my constituents).

"We sought in the war an opportunity to set traps for the king, to expose his bad faith and his relationship with the emigrant princes."-- Moniteur, (session of April 3, 1793).