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 Tuileries, that is, after this last necessary uprising, according to Janet, the Paris people, under the pen of our historian, gradually becomes transformed into a mob governed by the lowest passions. Now it becomes clear: a "rebellion" is quite acceptable, only one must not permit himself to be led astray by low passions—does the bourgeois historian want to be understood in that sense? Not at all. We are at once informed that now, "the glorious revolution" being over, all insurrections lack both sense and justification, Now we have it at last. The king has fallen, the nobility has been destroyed, the bourgeoisie has been lifted on the shield—what more does the heart wish for? Now be quiet, after you have on this earth done all that belongs to the earth. Who, unless it be the common mob, would think of insurrection?

Next! As could not otherwise be expected, Paul Janet extends his sympathy to all the parties that successively stood at the head of the movement, except the party of the Mountain. Upon the latter he pours the whole vial of his wrath, for this