property is the law; everything belongs to everybody." Besides, "an equalizing of fortunes must be brought about, a leveling, which shall abolish the vicious principle of the domination of the rich over the poor." This reform is all the more pressing because "the people, the real sovereign people, have nearly as many enemies as there are proprietors, large merchants, financiers, and wealthy men. In a time of revolution, we must regard all men who have more than enough as the enemies, secret or avowed, of popular government." Therefore, "let the people of each commune, before they quit their homes" for the army, "put all those who are suspected of not loving liberty in a secure place, and under the safe-keeping of the law; let them be kept shut up until war is over; let them be guarded with pikes," and let each one of their guardians receive thirty sous per day. * As for the partisans of the fallen government, the members of the Paris directory, "with Roederer and Blondel at their head," * as for the general officers, "with Lafayette and d'Affry at their head," * as for "the critical deputies of the Constituent Assembly, with Barnave and Lameth at their head," * as for the Feuillant deputies of the Legislative Assembly, "with Ramond and Jaucourt at their head,"[3207] * as for "all those who consented to soil their hands with the profits of the civil list," * as for "the 40,000 hired assassins who were gathered at the palace on the night of August 9-10, they are all (say the Jacobins) furious monsters, who ought to be strangled to the last one. People! you have risen to your feet; stand firm until not one of these conspirators remains alive. Your humanity requires you for once to show yourselves inexorable. Strike terror to the wicked. The proscriptions which we impose on you as a duty, are the sacred wrath of your country." There is no mistaking this; it is a tocsin sounding against all the powers that be, against all social superiority, against priests and nobles, proprietors, capitalists, the leaders of business and industry; it is sounding, in short, against the whole élite of France, whether of old or recent origin. The Jacobins of Paris, by their journals, their examples, their missionaries, give the signal; and in the provinces their kindred spirits, imbued with the same principles, only wait the summons to hurl themselves forward. II.--In several departments it establishes itself in advance. An instance of this in the Var.