(Report of Saint-Just, Germinal 21, year II., and a decree of Germinal 26-29, Art.

4, 13, 15.)--Ibid., 315.] [Footnote 2142: Buchez et Roux, (Report of Saint-Just, October 10, 1793.) "That would be the only good they could do their country....

It would be no more than just for the people to reign over its oppressors in its turn, and that their pride should be bathed in the sweat of their brows."] [Footnote 2143: Ibid., XXXI., 309.

(Report of Saint-Just, Ventose 8, year II.)] [Footnote 2144: Ibid., XXVI.435.

(Speech by Robespierre on the constitution, May 10, 1793.) "What were our usages and pretended laws other than a code of impertinence and baseness, where contempt of men was subject to a sort of tariff, and graduated according to regulations as odd as they were numerous?
To despise and be despised, to cringe in order to rule, slaves and tyrants in turn, now kneeling before a master, now trampling the people under foot--such was the ambition of all of us, so long as we were men of birth or well educated men, whether common folks or fashionable folks, lawyers or financiers, pettifoggers or wearing swords."-- Archives Nationales, F7, 31167.