NOTES.
[1] “Nothing would appear to more graphically illustrate the moral influence of the ‘Terror’ than that common submission to a force that was rather implied than expressed. Now it seems a matter for marvel how a great many thousands of capable men, having nothing to hope from the intolerable tyranny that was massing them in a number of professed slaughter-houses, should not only have attempted no organised retaliation, but should, by unstiffening their necks (in a very heroic fashion, be it said) to be the footstools to a few monstrous bullies, have tacitly allowed the righteousness of a system that was destroying them to go by implication. Escapes from durance were, comparatively speaking, rare; resistance to authority scarcely ever carried beyond the personal and peevish limit. Yet it is a fact that many of the innumerable prisons—of which, from my own observation, I may instance St Pélagie—were quite inadequately guarded, and generally, indeed, open to any visitor who was prepared to ‘tip’ for the privilege of entry.”—Extracted from an unpublished chapter of the Count’s Reminiscences.
[2] Décadi the Revolutionary Sabbath.—Ed.
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