A similar resolution
providing for the 7th of Messidor, signed by the same parties and five
others, is dispatched the same day. (M. de Martel came across and
made use of this conclusive document before I did, most of it being
quoted in "Les Types Revolutionnaires.")
[172] Buchez et Roux, XXXIII., 434.
CHAPTER II. THE RULERS OF THE COUNTRY.
Let us follow the operations of the new government from top to bottom,
from those of its ruling bodies and leaders, to its assemblies,
committees, delegates, administrators and underlings of every kind and
degree. Like living flesh stamped with a red-hot iron, so will the
situation put one their brows the two marks, each with its own
different depth and discoloration. In vain do they, too, strive to
conceal their scars: we detect under the crowns and titles they assume
the brand of the slave or the mark of the tyrant.
I. The Convention.
The Convention. - The "Plain." - The "Mountain." - Degradation of
Souls. - Parades which the Convention is obligated to make.
At the Tuileries, the omnipotent Convention sits enthroned in the
theater, converted into an Assembly room. It carries on its
deliberations daily, in grand style.
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