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THE DEPARTMENTS.
I .-- Provence in 1792 .-- Early supremacy of the Jacobins in Marseilles.
Composition of the party .-- The club and the municipality.
-- Expulsion of the "Earnest" regiment.
Should you like to see the revolutionary tree when, for the first time, it came fully into leaf, it is in the department of the Bouches-du-Rhone you have to look.

Nowhere else had it been so precocious, nowhere were local circumstances and native temperament so well adapted to enhance its growth.--"A blistering sky, an excessive climate, an arid soil, rocks,...

savage rivers, torrential or dry or overburdened," blinding dust, nerves upset by steady northern blasts or by the intermittent gusts of the sirocco.

A sensual race choleric and impetuous, with no intellectual or moral ballast, in which the mixture of Celt and Latin has destroyed the humane suavity of the Celt and the serious earnestness of the Roman; "complete, tough, powerful, and restless men,"[2401] and yet gay, spontaneous, eloquent, dupes of their own bombast, suddenly carried away by a flow of words and superficial enthusiasm.