Note 12 — PROLOGUE.
Eleanor Marx Aveling translation
"Constantly in relations with the anxious population, which urgently asked what was going on, what the Government thought, what it was doing, we were obliged to screen it; to say that it was acting for the best; that it had given itself up entirely to the defence; that the chiefs of the army were most devoted and working with ardour.... We said this without knowing, without believing it. We knew nothing."—Enquête sur le 4 Septembre, Corbon, vol. i. p. 375.