The scheme was formed, as was intended, under Girondist influence, and was acceptable to the nation as a whole. In spite of many defects, it might after a little experience have been amended so as to work, if the people had been united and hearty in its support. But they were not. The Thermidorians, who were still Jacobins at heart, ordered that at least two-thirds of the men elected to sit in the new houses should have been members of the Convention, on the plea that they alone had sufficient experience of affairs to carry on the public business, at least for the present. Perhaps this was intended as some offset to the enforced closing of the Jacobin Club on November twelfth, 1794, due to menaces by the higher classes of Parisian society, known to history as "the gilded youth." On the other hand, the royalists saw in the new constitution an instrument ready to their hand, should public opinion, in its search for means to restore quiet and order, be carried still further away from the Revolution than the movement of Thermidor had swept it. Their conduct justified the measures of the Jacobins. CHAPTER XXI. The Antechamber to Success. Punishment of the Terrorists -- Dangers of the Thermidorians -- Successes of Republican Arms -- Some Republican Generals -- Military Prodigies -- The Treaty of Basel -- Vendean Disorders Repressed -- A "White Terror" -- Royalist Activity -- Friction Under the New Constitution -- Arrival of Buonaparte in Paris -- Paris Society -- Its Power -- The People Angry -- Resurgence of Jacobinism -- Buonaparte's Dejection -- His Relations with Mme. Permon -- His Magnanimity. [Sidenote: 1795.] From time to time after the events of Thermidor the more active agents of the Terror were sentenced to transportation, and the less guilty were imprisoned. On May seventh, 1795, three days before Buonaparte's arrival in Paris, Fouquier-Tinville, and fifteen other wretches who had been but tools, the executioners of the revolutionary tribunal, were put to death. The National Guard had been reorganized, and Pichegru was recalled from the north to take command of the united forces in Paris under a committee of the Convention with Barras at its head.