[Footnote 26108: Aug. 10-12 and Aug. 28.] [Footnote 26109: Ibid., Aug. 10, Aug. 13.--Cf. Moniteur, XIII. 399 (session of Aug. 12).] [Footnote 26110: Ibid., Aug. 18.] [Footnote 26111: Aug. 23 and Sep. 3. After the 11th of August the Assembly passes a decree releasing Saint-Huruge and annulling the warrant against Antoine.] [Footnote 26112: Ibid., Aug. 14.] [Footnote 26113: Ibid., Aug. 14. Decree for dividing the property of the émigrés into lots of from two to four arpents, in order to "multiply small proprietors."--Ibid., Sept. 2. Other decrees against the émigrés and their relations, Aug. 14, 23, 30, and Sept. 5 and 9.] [Footnote 26114: Ibid., Aug. 26. Other decrees against the ecclesiastics or the property of the church, Aug. 17, 18, 19, and Sept. 9 and 19.] [Footnote 26115: Ibid., Sept. 20.] [Footnote 26116: Imagine the impression these last lines may have upon any ardent, ambitious and arrogant young man who, like Lenin in 1907, would have read this between 1893 and 1962, date of the last English reprinting of Taine's once widely know work. They summed up both what had to be done and who would be the primary beneficiaries of the revolution. Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini and countless other young hopeful political men. Read it once more and ask yourself if much of this program has not been more or less surreptitiously carried out in most western countries after the second world war? (SR).] [Footnote 26117: Malouet, II. 241.] [Footnote 26118: Mercure de France, July 21, 1792.] [Footnote 26119: "Révolutions de Paris," XIII. 137.] [Footnote 26120: Mallet du Pan. "Mémoires," I. 322. Letters to Mallet du Pan. Aug. 4 and following days.] [Footnote 26121: Buchez et Roux, XVI. 446. Pétion's narrative.--Arnault, "Souvenirs d'un sexagénaire," I. 342. (An eye-witness on the 10th of August.) "The massacre extended but little beyond the Carrousel, and did not cross the Seine. Everywhere else I found a population as quiet as if nothing had happened. Inside the city the people scarcely manifested any surprise; dancing went on in the public gardens. In the Marais, where I lived then, there was only a suspicion of the occurrence, the same as at Saint-Germain; it was said that something was going on in Paris, and the evening newspaper was impatiently looked for to know what it was."]