... it was all wrong that she
was not made an apprentice.... Hortense de Beauharnais was
apprenticed to her mother's seamstress, while Eugene was put with a
carpenter in the Faubourg St. Germain." The prevailing dogmatism has
a singular effect with simple-minded people. (Archives Nationals, AF.
II., 135. petition of Ursule Riesler, servant to citizen Estreich and
arrested along with him, addressed to Garneri, agent of the Committee
of Public Safety. She begs citizen Garnerin to interest himself in
obtaining her freedom. She will devote her life to praying to the
Supreme Being for him, since he will redeem her life. He is to
furnish her, moreover, with the means for espousing a future husband,
a genuine republican, by who she is pregnant, and who would not allow
her to entertain any idea of fanatical capers.
CHAPTER II.
I.
Reactionary concept of the State. - Analogy between this idea of the
State and that of antiquity. - Difference between antique and modern
society. - Changed circumstances.
The Jacobin theory can then be summarized in the following points:
* The speculative creation of a curtailed type of human being.
* An effort to adapt the living man to this type.
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