He speaks very commendingly of the popular insurrections directed against royalty, aye, he seeks to prove that, without these uprisings, the government would have smothered all the reforms of the national assembly in embryo, and that the great aims of the revolution would then have remained unattainable. The storming of the Bastile he hails as "the first victorious appearance of the people of Paris on the revolutionary stage"; and in the same approving manner he expresses himself about the second appearance of the same people on the same stage, about the events of October 5 and 6, and also about the storming of the Tuileries, Arrived there, nota bene after Janet has proved the inevitable necessity of eliminating a king negotiating with the enemy at the very outset of the war, he adds in a melancholy vein: "France became gradually accustomed to solving political questions with such sorry means." But he does not tell us with what other means the given and unpostponable task might have been accomplished.
Only after the storming of the
