Note 152 — THE ORIGIN OF THE REPUBLIC.

Stephen’s French Rev., ii, 154; Babeau’s Hist. de Troyes pendant la Rév., i, 527, 528. The following excerpt from A Residence in France, 1792-95, described in a series of letters from an English Lady, i, 93: “If the electors and elected of the other departments be of the same complexion with those of Arras, the new Assembly will not, in any respect, be preferable to the old one. I have reproached many of the people of this place, who, from their education and property, have a right to take an interest in the public affairs, with thus suffering themselves to be represented by the most desperate and worthless individuals of the town. Their defense is that they are insulted and overpowered if they attend the popular meetings, and by electing les gueux et les scélérats pour députés, they send them to Paris and secure their own local tranquillity.”