Orders and counter-orders were given on the one hand, and revoked on the other. Schemes of every kind, all equally inconsiderate and impracticable, were approved and rejected, resumed and abandoned.
The chambers and the government had ceased to act in unison. The ministers complained of the deputies; the deputies publicly demanded of the King the dismissal of his ministers, and that he would place around himself men, "who have been the constant defenders of justice and liberty, and whose names shall be a guarantee for the interest of all[50]."
The same disorder, the same disunion, manifested themselves every where at the same time: there was only one point in which people agreed; that all was lost.
In fact so it was.
The people, whom the nobles had humbled, vexed, or terrified by haughty and tyrannical pretensions;
They who had acquired national domains, whom they had wished to dispossess;
The protestants, who had been sacrificed;
The magistrates, who had been turned out;
The persons in office, who had been reduced to want;
The soldiers, officers, and generals, who had been despised and ill-treated;