The things we do!

These are great, and it exaggerates them.
It is inexperienced and alarmed. It is not surprising that, in the
exercise of its extemporized power, it should pass beyond its
natural or legal limit, and without being aware of it, overstep the
metaphysical line which the Constitution defines between its rights
and the rights of the State. Neither hunger, fear, rage, nor any of
the popular passions can wait; there is no time to refer to Paris.
Action is necessary, immediate action, and, with the means at hand,
they must save themselves as well as they can. This or that mayor
of a village is soon to find himself a general and a legislator.
This or that petty town is to give itself a charter like Laon or
Vezelay in the twelfth century. "On the 6th of October, 1789,[14]
near Autun, the market-town of Issy-l'Ev?que declares itself an
independent State. The parish assembly is convoked by the priest,
M. Carion, who is appointed member of the administrative committee
and of the new military staff.


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