* because the guillotine is set up and in operation on the "Place de
la Révolution;"

* because a recent act of the Commune enjoins on the police "the most
active surveillance" and "constant patrols" by the armed force;

* because, from the first to the fourth of August, the barriers are
closed;

* because, on the 2nd of August, a raid into three of the theaters
puts five hundred young men in the lock-up,[27]

so the discontented soon discover, if there are any, that this is not
the time or the place to protest.

As to the others, already Jacobin, the faction takes it upon itself to
render them still more so. -- Lost in the immensity of Paris, all
these provincials require moral as well as physical guides; it agrees
to exercise toward them "hospitality in all its plenitude, the
sweetest of Republican virtues."[28] Hence, ninety-six sans-culottes,
selected from among the sections, wait on them at the Mayoralty to
serve as their correspondents, and perhaps as their guarantees, and
certainly as pilots

* to give them lodging-tickets,

* to escort and install them,

* to indoctrinate them, as formerly with the federates of July, 1792,