Note 1 — PROLOGUE.
Eleanor Marx Aveling translation
The prefect of police, Pietri, attests it: "It is certain that on that day the revolution might have succeeded, for the crowd which surrounded the Corps Législatif on the 9th August was composed of elements similar to those which triumphed on the 4th September."—Enquête sur le 4 Septembre, vol. i. p. 258.