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Mirabeau sent forth from Paris several most able pamphlets on banking and on share companies. These were written with energy and often with violence. As they attacked many private interests they aroused against their author much hatred, insult, and calumny.
The former would have betrayed the people he led; the latter would have urged them on to consistent courses, even if the way was lined with death. Had Mirabeau lived, and retained his power, he would have compromised the Revolution, of which Napoleon was the product, and the work would have had to be done over.
He had great tact in the management of party, and was intent on the aggrandizement of his country. His morality was reckless, but his intelligence was great—a sort of Mirabeau: with his passion, his eloquence, and his talents.
Attack on the Palace on the 6th. Danger and Heroism of the Queen. The Royal Family remove to Paris. Their Reception at the Barrier and at the Hôtel de Ville. Shabbiness of the Tuileries. The King fixes his Residence there. Feelings of Marie Antoinette on coming to the Tuileries. Her Tact in winning the Hearts of the Common People. Mirabeau changes his Views.
He was essentially a man of peace he launched these children of his brain, indifferently, like his children of the flesh, upon the world and left their fate to the god of Chance. Out of the dust and din of the French Revolution, now seen by us on the horizon of time, there emerge four names: Robespierre, Mirabeau, Danton and Marat.
Before the King agreed to this removal he wished to consult the National Assembly, and caused that body to be invited to sit at the Chateau. Mirabeau opposed this measure. While these discussions were going forward it became more and more difficult to restrain the immense disorderly multitude.
Robespierre, who had often struggled against Mirabeau with Duport, the Lameths, and Barnave, began to separate himself from them as soon as they appeared to predominate in the Assembly. He formed, with Pétion and some others of small note, a small band of opposition, radically democratic, who encouraged the Jacobins without, and menaced Barnave and the Lameths whenever they ventured to pause.
I began to think that this must undoubtedly be the case, and yet I remembered the geography of the hall, and the pattern of the carpet, and the picture of Mirabeau in the National Assembly. Then it dawned on both of us. "Ah! Monsieur was here before August 1. Since then everyone is mobilized. I am the manager's wife, Monsieur, and my husband is at the front, and we have hardly any staff here now.
He observes that, given the means of subsistence, men will multiply like rats in a barn. The great axiom, he says, is 'la mesure de la subsistance est celle de la population. Cultivate your fields, and you will raise men. Mirabeau replies to Hume's essay upon the 'Populousness of ancient nations' , of which Wallace's first treatise was a criticism.
'All my philosophy, he wrote to Mirabeau, when only four or five and twenty years old, an age when the intellect is usually most exigent of supremacy, 'all my philosophy has its source in my heart. In the same spirit he had well said that there is more cleverness in the world than greatness of soul, more people with talent than with lofty character.
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