. The first republic; or, The Whites and the Blues. he Revolution andits authors — the authority that was needed to establishthe new institutions, a dread of which had produced theevents we have narrated. The Convention so fully understood by the morning ofthe 14th that the plenitude of its power was restored thatit hardly inquired what had become of the beaten Section-ists, who, indeed, had disappeared leaving naught behindthem but a trail of blood, which one days work hadeffaced, if not from the memory of the citizens, at leastfrom the pavement of the streets. The Convention contented itself
. The first republic; or, The Whites and the Blues. he Revolution andits authors — the authority that was needed to establishthe new institutions, a dread of which had produced theevents we have narrated. The Convention so fully understood by the morning ofthe 14th that the plenitude of its power was restored thatit hardly inquired what had become of the beaten Section-ists, who, indeed, had disappeared leaving naught behindthem but a trail of blood, which one days work hadeffaced, if not from the memory of the citizens, at leastfrom the pavement of the streets. The Convention contented itself with abolishing theheadquarters of the National Guard, dissolving the chas-seurs and the grenadiers, who were nearly all young menwith their hair in queues, putting the National Guardunder the command of Barras, or rather of his youngcolleague, Bonaparte, ordering the disarming of the Sec-tions Le Peletier and Theatre Français, and, finally, appoint-ing three commissions to try the leaders of the Sectionists^nearly all of whom had Portrait of Eugene Beauharnais. THE SWORD OF THE VICOMTE DE BEAUHARNAIS. 371 Many incidents of this day, whicli left in the minds ofParisians so bloody a memory, were long related. Splen-did words issued from the lips of the wounded, or ratherfrom the wounds themselves. It was told how thewounded, carried to the Convention itself, and into thehall of Victory, had been cared for by the wives anddaughters of the Conventionals, transformed into Sistersof Mercy. Barras was praised for having known so wellhow to select his second in command; and they glorifiedthe young general who, all unknown the night before,had suddenly burst upon the world like a majestic beingamid the thunders of heaven. Bonaparte, descending from this pedestal of flame, wasnow general of the Interior ; and in order to be near head-quarters, which were on the boulevard des Capucines, inthe building formerly used for the ministry of foreignaiïairs, he had taken two r
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