Note 8 — Chapter V · CARDINAL AND COUNT.
Daniel De Leon translation
The White Terror, the massacre in the south of France, the executions without appeal which followed the first restoration of Kings by Divine right, are well known to all. It did not stop there.
On October 27, 1815, Monsieur Pasquler read in the Chamber a report on the projected law on seditious speeches and writings:
"We would pronounce," he declared, "the penalty of hard labor against all seditious slogans, speeches or writings if delivered individually.
"Death, if they are the result of concerted action.
"The same penalty as for parricide if they have any noticeable effect."
Another, Monsieur C——, rose, and in concert with two of his royalist colleagues proposed with great insistence that the penalty of death be made applicable to all who hoisted the tricolored flag.