the soil into one vast steppe. But, to demolish a town whose arsenal
and harbor is maintained by it, to destroy the leaders of
manufacturing interests and their dwellings in a city where its
workmen and factories are preserved, to keep up a fountain and stop
the stream which flows from it, or the stream without the fountain, is
so absurd that the idea could only enter the head of a Jacobin. His
imagination has run so wild and his prevision become so limited that
he is no longer aware of contradictions; the ferocious stupidity of
the barbarian and the fixed idea of the inquisition meet on common
ground; the earth is not big enough for any but himself and the
orthodox of his species. Employing absurd, inflated and sinister
terms he decrees the extermination of heretics: not only shall their
monuments, dwellings and persons be destroyed, but every vestige of
them shall be eradicated and their names lost to the memory of
man.[102]

"The name of Toulon shall be abolished; that commune shall henceforth
bear the name of Port-la-Montagne." - "The name of Lyons shall be
stricken off the list of towns belonging to the Republic; the
remaining collection of houses shall henceforth bear the name of
Ville-Affranchie. A column shall be erected on the ruins of Lyons
bearing this inscription: 'Lyons made war on Liberty! Lyons is no
more!'"



X.

Destruction of the Girondin party. -- Proscription of the Deputies of
the "Right". -- Imprisonment of the 73. -- Execution of the 21. --