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incendiary deeds, spoke already of putting the Provisional Government on trial."
G. Pinet, Histoire de I 'Ecole polytechniqlle (Paris, 1887), p. 250. [a8,2]
During the February Revolution, students from the Ecole Poly technique burned
papers in the Tuileries which appeared to them compromising for the sigoatories,
but which would have had great interest for the revolution: declarations of loy­
alty to Louis Philippe (pinet, p. 254). [a8,3]
Lissagaray, in an essay on Lies Miserables, in La Bataille: One need only be in
touch with the people to become revolutionary" [Victor Hugo devQ,nt l'opinion
(Paris, 1885), p. 129]. [a8,4]
Around 184,0, a certain number of workers formed the resolution to plead their
cause directly before the public . ... From that moment, . .. communism, which
until then had been on the offensive, took prudently to the defense." A. COl'bon,
Le Secret du peuple de Paris (Paris, 1863), p. 117. In question are the communist
organ La Fra,ternite, which began publishing already in 184.5, the anticommunist
L'Ateliel; L 'Union, and La Ruche popula,ire, which was the earliest. [a8,5]
On the worker: 'J-Ie is, in general, incapahle of understanding practical affairs.
The solutions that suit him best are therefore those which seem likely to exempt
him from incessant preoccupation with what he considers the humble sphere, the
drudgeries of life . ... Let us take as a virtual certainty, then, that any system
which would tend to rivet . .. our worker . .. to the factory-though it promise far
more butter than hread-. . would he repugnant to him." A. Corbon, pp. 186-
1. ,
" The question of workers, like the question of the poor, was planted at the entryway
to the Revolution. Since the children of the families of workers and artisans
could not cover the needs of a lahor-starved industry, factories made use of orphans
as well . ... The industrial exploitation of children and women . .. is one of
the most glorious achievements of philanthropy. Cheap food for workers, with a
... view to lowering wages, was likewise one of the favorite philanthropic notions
of the factory owners and political economists of the eighteenth century . ... When
the French finally study the Revolution with a cold eye and without class prejudice,
they will realize that the ideas which made for its greatness came from Switzerland,
where the bourgeoisie was already dominant: in fact, it was from Geneva
that A. P. Candolle imported the so-called "economic soup' . .. which created such
a furor in the Paris of the Revolution . ... Even the dry and unblinking Volney
could not help being moved 'at the sight of this alliance of men of respectahle
position eagerly occupied in supervising a pot of' hoiling soup. '" Paul Lafargue,
"Die christliche Liebestatigkeit." Die neue Zeit, 23, no. 1 (Stuttgart), pp. 148-149.
[a8a,l]
"'Should three men happen to be in the street talking together about wages, or
should they happen to ask the entrepreneur who has grown rich on their labor for