![]() Stand with the weariful crowd outside theīakehouse-door, that haply a coarse loaf may be Lacks bread, not a single woman compelled to Revolution to the last, in all the provinces fightingįor freedom, that there is not a single man who Let others spend their time in issuing pompous proclamations, in decorating themselves lavishly with official gold lace, and in talking about political liberty!…īe it ours to see, from the first day of the "Bread, it is bread that the Revolution needs!" Its days were already numbered, and the troops To feast at their ease in fashionable restaurants. Élégantes and fine gentlemen could spurn theĬonfederates, and bid them go sell their lives forĪ miserable pittance, and leave their "betters" To take measures for providing the people withīread. It had taken measures for the separation of ChurchĪnd State, but it neglected, alas, until too late, The Commune perished for lack of combatants. Their powers, they made one last desperate effort-anĮffort which was drowned in blood. Republic, and then, having reached the limit of Months of starvation" at the service of the In 1848 the workers of Paris placed "three This picture is typical of all our revolutions. Were crowded, while the pageant of rank andįashion resumed its old course, and went on ![]() Water, the guillotine was never idle, the prisons The Revolution dead, nothing remained but to trample its corpse under foot. Then reaction proudly asserted itself, andĪccomplished a politic stroke. Revolutionary had at last to admit to himself that Sick at heart, his patience at an end, the Like scented fops and said to the workers: "Come,Įnough of this foolery! What have you gained by rebellion?" Hiding-places, and flaunted their luxury in theįace of the starving multitude. And littleīy little the rich took courage, emerged from their More wretched than ever before," whispered the Much for your vaunted Revolution! You are Hundred dukes and viscounts every day, it wouldĬannot live without his wage, and the wage was They guillotinedĪ dozen or fifteen a day-servants and duchessesĪlike, especially servants, for the duchesses had Then they turned on the royalist conspiratorsĪnd laid the blame at their door. Were hanged-and still the people lacked bread. To procure corn the bakers who hoarded flour At Lyons, Fouché and Collotĭ'Herbois established city granaries, but the sums spent on filling them were woefully With the question of bread, and made heroic efforts Powers were given to "the Mountain" and to theĬommune. Thereupon the Girondists were guillotined, and full "The Girondists are starving us!" was theĬry in the workmen's quarters in 1793, and Wantįamine was abroad in the land-such famine as had hardly been seen under the old regime. The wretchedness around but the wage-earner His dividends, if indeed he did not speculate on Nothing to fear at such times, he battened on Still stir our hearts, at the interval of a century.īut the people were starving in the slums.įrom the very commencement of the RevolutionĬirculation of produce was checked, and capitalĬoncealed itself. Have moved the world words were spoken which Great ideas sprang up at such times, ideas that ![]() ![]() Political questions at great length, but forgot to Or to the working classes, it was always middle-class But even in theseĬlubs, whether the leaders belonged to the middle It is true the workmen's clubs kept an eye on the Imbued with Jacobin ideas, this Government occupied itself first of all with political questions, such as the reorganization of the machinery of government, the purifying of the administration, the separation of Church and State, civic liberty, and such matters. A Government, composed of men more or less honest, was formed and undertook to organize-the Republic in 1793, Labour in 1848, and the Free Commune in 1871. Then, after having borne the brunt of the battle, they sank again into obscurity. In each case the people strove to overturn the old regime, and spent their heart's blood for the cause. The three great popular movements which we have seen in France during the last hundred years differ from each other in many ways, but they have one common feature. To attain a new end, new means are required. If the coming Revolution is to be a Social Revolution it will be distinguished from all former uprisings not only by its aim, but also by its methods.
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