There are shouting, tears,
applause, stamping and clapping, as at the performance of a tragedy;
one or another individual becomes so inflamed and hoarse that he
dies on the spot with fever and exhaustion. In vain has Arthur
Young been accustomed to the tumult of political liberty; he is
dumb-founded at what he sees.[21] According to him, the excitement
is "incredible. . . . We think sometimes that Debrett's or
Stockdale's shops at London are crowded; but they are mere deserts
compared to Desenne's and some others here, in which one can
scarcely squeeze from the door to the counter . . . .Every hour
produces its pamphlet; 13 came out to-day, 16 yesterday, and 92 last
week. 95% of these productions are in favor of liberty;" and by
liberty is meant the extinction of privileges, numerical
sovereignty, the application of the Contrat-Social, "The Republic",
and even more besides, a universal leveling, permanent anarchy, and
even the jacquerie. Camille Desmoulins, one of the orators,
commonly there, announces it and urges it in precise terms:
"Now that the animal is in the trap, let him be battered to
death.
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