They were three soldiers of the
regiment of Provence who forced the house of Chatel at Saint-Denis,
and dragged his head through the streets. It is Swiss soldiers who,
at Passy, knock down the commissioners of police with their guns.
Their headquarters are at the Palais-Royal, amongst women whose
instruments they are, and amongst agitators from whom they receive
the word of command. Henceforth, all depends on this word, and we
have only to contemplate the new popular leaders to know what it
will be.
III.
The new popular leaders.- Their ascendancy .- Their education. -
Their sentiments.- Their situation. - Their councils. - Their
denunciations. -
Administrators and members of district assemblies, agitators of
barracks, coffee-houses, clubs and public thoroughfares, writers of
pamphlets, penny-a-liners are multiplying as fast as buzzing insects
are hatched on a sultry night. After the 14th of July thousands of
jobs have become available for released ambitions; "attorneys,
notaries' clerks, artists, merchants, shopkeepers, comedians and
especially advocates;[17] each wants to be either an officer, a
director, a councillor, or a minister of the new reign; while
journals, which are established by dozens,[18] form a permanent
tribune, where speakers come to court the people to their personal
advantage.
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