In the popular club of Bourg-
en-Bresse,[150] Representative Javogues declared that,
"the Republic could be established only on the corpse of the last of
the respectable men."
X. The Governors and the Governed.
Prisoners in the rue de S?vres and the "Croix-Rouge" revolutionary
committee. - The young Dauphin and Simon his preceptor. - Judges,
and those under their jurisdiction. - Trenchard and Coffinhal,
Lavoisier and Andr? Ch?nier.
Here we have, on one side, the ?lite of France, almost every person of
rank, fortune, family, and merit, those eminent for intelligence,
culture, talent and virtue, all deprived of common rights, in exile,
in prison, under pikes, and on the scaffold. On the other side, those
above common law, possessing every office and omnipotent in the
irresponsible dictatorship, in the despotic proconsulships, in the
sovereignty of justice, a horde of the outcasts of all classes, the
parvenus of fanaticism, charlatanism, imbecility and crime. Often,
when these personalities meet, one sees the contrast between the
governed and the governors in such strong relief that one almost
regards it as calculated and arranged beforehand; the colors and brush
of the painter, rather than words, are necessary to represent it.
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