breathed a living soul! To them it is clear
only that eleutheromaniac Philosophism has yet baked no bread; that
Patrioti Committee-men will level down to their own level, and no lower.
Brigands, or whatever they might be, it was bitter earnest with them.
They bury their dead with the title of Defenseurs de la Patrie, Martyrs
of the good Cause.

Or shall we say: Insurrection has now served its Apprenticeship; and
this was its proof-stroke, and no inconclusive one? Its next will be a
master-stroke; announcing indisputable Mastership to a whole astonished
world. Let that rock-fortress, Tyranny's stronghold, which they name
Bastille, or Building, as if there were no other building,--look to its
guns!

But, in such wise, with primary and secondary Assemblies, and Cahiers of
Grievances; with motions, congregations of all kinds; with much thunder
of froth-eloquence, and at last with thunder of platoon-musquetry,--does
agitated France accomplish its Elections. With confused winnowing and
sifting, in this rather tumultuous manner, it has now (all except
some remnants of Paris) sifted out the true wheat-grains of National
Deputies, Twelve Hundred and Fourteen in number; and will forthwith open
its States-General.

Chapter 1.4.IV.

The Procession.

On the first Saturday of May, it is gala at Versailles; and Monday,
fourth of the month, is to be a still greater day. The Deputies have
mostly got thither, and sought out lodgings; and are now successively,
in long well-ushered files, kissing the hand of Majesty in the Chateau.
Supreme Usher de Breze does not give the highest satisfaction: we
cannot but observe that in ushering Noblesse or Clergy into the anointed
Presence, he liberally opens both his folding-doors; and on the other
hand, for members of the Third Estate opens only one! However, there is
room to enter; Majesty has smiles for all.

The good Louis welcomes his Honourable Members, with smiles of hope. He
has prepared for them the Hall of Menus, the largest near him; and
often surveyed the workmen as they went on. A spacious Hall: with
raised platform for Throne, Court and Blood-royal; space for six hundred
Commons Deputies in front; for half as many Clergy on this hand, and
half as many Noblesse on that. It has lofty galleries; wherefrom dames
of honour, splendent in gaze d'or; foreign Diplomacies, and other
gilt-edged white-frilled individuals to the number of two thousand,--may
sit and look. Broad passages f