The National Convention had decreed the maximum,—and instantly corn and flour had disappeared. Like the Israelites in the wilderness3, the Parisians had to rise before daybreak if they wished to eat. The crowd was lined up, men, women and children tightly packed together, under a sky of molten lead. The heat beat down on the rotting foulness4 of the kennels5 and exaggerated the stench of unwashed, sweating humanity. All were pushing, abusing their neighbours, exchanging looks fraught7 with every sort of emotion one human being can feel for another,—dislike, disgust, interest, attraction, indifference8. Painful experience had taught them there was not bread enough for everybody; so the late comers were always trying to push forward, while those who lost ground complained bitterly and indignantly and vainly claimed their rights. Women shoved and elbowed savagely9 to keep their place or squeeze into a better. When the press grew too intolerable, cries rose of "Stop pushing there!" while each and all protested they could not help it—it was someone else pushing them.
To obviate10 these daily scenes of disorder11, the officials appointed by the Section had conceived the notion of fastening a rope to the shop-door which each applicant12 held in his proper order; but hands at such close quarters would come in contact on the rope and a struggle would result. Whoever lost hold could never recover it, while the disappointed and the mischievously14 inclined sometimes cut the cord. In the end the plan had to be abandoned.
On this occasion there was the usual suffocation15 and confusion. While some swore they were dying, others indulged in jokes or loose remarks; all abused the aristocrats16 and federalists, authors of all the misery17. When a dog ran by, wags hailed the beast as Pitt. More than once a loud slap showed that some citoyenne in the line had resented with a vigorous hand the insolence18 of a lewd19 admirer, while, pressed close against her neighbour, a young servant girl, with eyes half shut and mouth half open, stood sighing in a sort of trance. At any word, or gesture, or attitude of a sort to provoke the sportive humour of the coarse-minded populace, a knot of young libertines20 would strike up the ?a-ira in chorus, regardless of the protests of an old Jacobin, highly indignant to see a dirty meaning attached to a refrain expressive21 of the Republican faith in a future of justice and happiness.
His ladder under his arm, a billsticker appeared to post up on a blank wall facing the baker's a proclamation by the Commune apportioning22 the rations23 of butcher's-meat. Passers-by halted to read the notice, still sticky with paste. A cabbage vendor24 going by, basket on back, began calling out in her loud cracked voice:
Suddenly such an appalling26 stench of putrefaction27 rose from a sewer28 near by that several people were turned sick; a woman was taken ill and handed over in a fainting condition to a couple of National Guards, who carried her off to a pump a few yards away. All held their noses, and fell to growling29 and grumbling30, exchanging conjectures31 each more ghastly and alarming than the last. What was it? a dead animal buried thereabouts, a dead fish, perhaps, put in for mischief32's sake, or more likely a victim of the September massacres33, some noble or priest, left to rot in a cellar.
"They buried them in cellars, eh?"
"They got rid of 'em anywhere and anyhow."
"It will be one of the Chatelet prisoners. On the 2nd I saw three hundred in a heap on the Port au Change."
The Parisians dreaded35 the vengeance36 of these aristocrats who were like to poison them with their dead bodies.
évariste Gamelin joined the line; he was resolved to spare his old mother the fatigues37 of the long wait. His neighbour, the citoyen Brotteaux, went with him, calm and smiling, his Lucretius in the baggy38 pocket of his plum-coloured coat.
The good old fellow enjoyed the scene, calling it a bit of low life worthy39 the brush of a modern Teniers.
"These street-porters and goodwives," he declared, "are more amusing than the Greeks and Romans our painters are so fond of nowadays. For my part, I have always admired the Flemish style."
One fact he was too sensible and tactful to mention—that he had himself owned a gallery of Dutch masters rivalled only by Monsieur de Choiseul's in the number and excellence40 of the examples.
"Nothing is beautiful save the Antique," returned the painter, "and what is inspired by it. Still, I grant you these low-life scenes by Teniers, Jan Steen or Ostade are better stuff than the frills and furbelows of Watteau, Boucher, or Van Loo; humanity is shown in an ugly light, but it is not degraded as it is by a Baudouin or a Fragonard."
"One Revolutionary Tribunal is not enough," said Gamelin, "there should be one in every town ... in every town, do I say?—nay43, in every village, in every hamlet. Fathers of families, citizens, one and all, should constitute themselves judges. At a time when the enemy's cannon44 is at her gates and the assassin's dagger45 at her throat, the Nation must hold mercy to be parricide46. What! Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux in insurrection, Corsica in revolt, La Vendée on fire, Mayence and Valenciennes in the hands of the Coalition47, treason in the country, town and camp, treason sitting on the very benches of the National Convention, treason assisting, map in hand, at the council board of our Commanders in the field!... The fatherland is in danger—and the guillotine must save her!"
"I have no objection on principle to make to the guillotine," replied Brotteaux. "Nature, my only mistress and my only instructress, certainly offers me no suggestion to the effect that a man's life is of any value; on the contrary, she teaches in all kinds of ways that it is of none. The sole end and object of living beings seems to be to serve as food for other beings destined48 to the same end. Murder is of natural right; therefore, the penalty of death is lawful49, on condition it is exercised from no motives50 either of virtue51 or of justice, but by necessity or to gain some profit thereby52. However, I must have perverse53 instincts, for I sicken to see blood flow, and this defect of character all my philosophy has failed so far to correct."
"Republicans," answered évariste, "are humane54 and full of feeling. It is only despots hold the death penalty to be a necessary attribute of authority. The sovereign people will do away with it one day. Robespierre fought against it, and all good patriots55 were with him; the law abolishing it cannot be too soon promulgated56. But it will not have to be applied57 till the last foe58 of the Republic has perished beneath the sword of law and order."
Gamelin and Brotteaux had by this time a number of late comers behind them and amongst these several women of the Section, including a stalwart, handsome tricoteuse, in head-kerchief and sabots, wearing a sword in a shoulder belt, a pretty girl with a mop of golden hair and a very tumbled neckerchief, and a young mother, pale and thin, giving the breast to a sickly infant.
The child, which could get no milk, was screaming, but its voice was weak and stifled59 by its sobs60. Pitifully small, with a pallid61, unhealthy skin and inflamed62 eyes, the mother gazed at it with mingled63 anxiety and grief.
"He is very young," observed Gamelin, turning to look at the unhappy infant groaning64 just at his back, half stifled amid the crowd of new arrivals.
"He is six months, poor love!... His father is with the army; he is one of the men who drove back the Austrians at Condé. His name is Dumonteil (Michel), a draper's assistant by trade. He enlisted65 at a booth they had established in front of the H?tel de Ville. Poor lad, he was all for defending his country and seeing the world.... He writes telling me to be patient. But pray, how am I to feed Paul (he's called Paul, you know) when I can't feed myself?"
"Oh, dear!" exclaimed the pretty girl with the flaxen hair, "we've got another hour before us yet, and to-night we shall have to repeat the same ceremony over again at the grocer's. You risk your life to get three eggs and a quarter of a pound of butter."
And a chorus of female voices rose, bewailing the scarcity67 and dearness of provisions, cursing the émigrés and devoting to the guillotine the Commissaries of Sections who were ready to give good-for-nothing minxes, in return for unmentionable services, fat hens and four-pound loaves. Alarming stories passed round of cattle drowned in the Seine, sacks of flour emptied in the sewers69, loaves of bread thrown into the latrines.... It was all those Royalists, and Rolandists, and Brissotins, who were starving the people, bent70 on exterminating71 every living thing in Paris!
All of a sudden the pretty, fair-haired girl with the rumpled72 neckerchief broke into shrieks73 as if her petticoats were afire. She was shaking these violently and turning out her pockets, vociferating that somebody had stolen her purse.
At news of the petty theft, a flood of indignation swept over this crowd of poor folks, the same who had sacked the mansions74 of the Faubourg Saint-Germain and invaded the Tuileries without appropriating the smallest thing, artisans and housewives, who would have burned down the Palace of Versailles with a light heart, but would have thought it a dire75 disgrace if they had stolen the value of a pin. The young rakes greeted the pretty girl's loss with some ribald jokes, that were immediately drowned under a burst of public indignation. There was some talk of instant execution—hanging the thief to the nearest lamp-post, and an investigation76 was begun, where everyone spoke77 at once and nobody would listen to a word of reason. The tall tricoteuse, pointing her finger at an old man, strongly suspected of being an unfrocked monk78, swore it was the "Capuchin" yonder who was the cut-purse. The crowd believed her without further evidence and raised a shout of "Death! death!"
The old man so unexpectedly exposed to the public vengeance was standing79 very quietly and soberly just in front of the citoyen Brotteaux. He had all the look, there was no denying it, of a ci-devant cleric. His aspect was venerable, though the face was changed and drawn80 by the terrors the poor man had suffered from the violence of the crowd and the recollection of the September days that were still vivid in his imagination. The fear depicted81 on his features stirred the suspicion of the populace, which is always ready to believe that only the guilty dread34 its judgments82, as if the haste and recklessness with which it pronounces them were not enough to terrify even the most innocent.
Brotteaux had made it a standing rule never to go against the popular feeling of the moment, above all when it was manifestly illogical and cruel, "because in that case," he would say, "the voice of the people was the voice of God." But Brotteaux proved himself untrue to his principles; he asseverated83 that the old man, whether he was a Capuchin or not, could not have robbed the citoyenne, having never gone near her for one moment.
The crowd drew its own conclusion,—the individual who spoke up for the thief was of course his accomplice84, and stern measures were proposed to deal with the two malefactors, and when Gamelin offered to guarantee Brotteaux' honesty, the wisest heads suggested sending him along with the two others to the Sectional headquarters.
But the pretty girl gave a cry of delight; she had found her purse again. The statement was received with a storm of hisses85, and she was threatened with a public whipping,—like a Nun86.
"Sir," said the ex-monk, addressing Brotteaux, "I thank you for having spoken in my defence. My name is of no concern, but I had better tell you what it is; I am called Louis de Longuemare. I am in truth a Regular; but not a Capuchin, as those women would have it. There is the widest difference; I am a monk of the Order of the Barnabites, which has given Doctors and Saints without number to the Church. It is only a half-truth to refer its origin to St. Charles Borromeo; we must account as the true founder87 the Apostle St. Paul, whose cipher88 it bears on its arms. I have been compelled to quit my cloister89, now headquarters of the Section du Pont-Neuf, and adopt a secular90 habit.
"Nay, Father," said Brotteaux, scrutinizing91 Monsieur de Longuemare's frock, "your dress is token enough that you have not forsworn your profession; to look at it, one might think you had reformed your Order rather than forsaken92 it. It is your good heart makes you expose yourself in these austere93 habiliments to the insults of a godless populace."
"Yet I cannot very well," replied the ex-monk, "wear a blue coat, like a roisterer at a dance!"
"What I mention, Father, about your dress is by way of paying homage94 to your character and putting you on your guard against the risks you run."
"On the contrary, sir, it would be much better to inspirit me to confess my faith. For indeed, I am only too prone95 to fear danger. I have abandoned my habit, sir, which is a sort of apostasy96; I would fain not have deserted97, had it been possible, the House where God granted me for so many years the grace of a peaceable and retired98 life. I got leave to stay there, and I still continued to occupy my cell, while they turned the church and cloister into a sort of petty h?tel de ville they called the Section. I saw, sir, I saw them hack99 away the emblems100 of the Holy Verity101; I saw the name of the Apostle Paul replaced by a convicted felon's cap. Sometimes I was actually present at the confabulations of the Section, where I heard amazing errors propounded102. At last I quitted this place of profanation103 and went to live on the pension of a hundred pistoles allowed me by the Assembly in a stable that stood empty, the horses having been requisitioned for the service of the armies. There I sing Mass for a few of the faithful, who come to the office to bear witness to the eternity104 of the Church of Jesus Christ."
"For my part, Father," replied the other, "if you care to know my name, I am called Brotteaux, and I was a publican in former days."
"Sir," returned the Père Longuemare, "I was aware by St. Matthew's example that one may look for good counsel from a publican."
"Father, you are too obliging."
"Citoyen Brotteaux," remarked Gamelin, "pray admire the virtues105 of the people, more hungry for justice than for bread; consider how everyone here is ready to lose his place to chastise106 the thief. These men and women, victims of such poverty and privation, are of so stern a probity107 they cannot tolerate a dishonest act."
"It must indeed be owned," replied Brotteaux, "that in their hearty108 desire to hang the pilferer109, these folks were like to do a mischief to this good cleric, to his champion and to his champion's champion. Their avarice110 itself and their selfish eagerness to safeguard their own welfare were motives enough; the thief in attacking one of them threatened all; self-preservation urged them to punish him.... At the same time, it is like enough the most part of these workmen and goodwives are honest and keep their hands off other folk's goods. From the cradle these sentiments have been instilled111 in them by their father and mother, who have whipped them well and soundly and inculcated the virtues through their backside."
Gamelin did not conceal112 the fact from his old neighbour that he deemed such language unworthy of a philosopher.
"Virtue," said he, "is natural to mankind; God has planted the seed of it in the heart of mortals."
"I see this much, citoyen Gamelin, that, while a Revolutionary for what is of this world, you are, where Heaven is concerned, of a conservative, or even a reactionary114 temper. Robespierre and Marat are the same to you. For me, I find it strange that Frenchmen, who will not put up with a mortal king any longer, insist on retaining an immortal115 tyrant116, far more despotic and ferocious117. For what is the Bastille, or even the Chambre Ardente[1] beside Hellfire? Humanity models its gods on its tyrants118, and you, who reject the original, preserve the copy!"
"Oh! citoyen!" protested Gamelin, "are you not ashamed to hold such language? how can you confound the dark divinities born of ignorance and fear with the Author of Nature? Belief in a benevolent119 God is necessary for morality. The Supreme120 Being is the source of all the virtues and a man cannot be a Republican if he does not believe in God. Robespierre knew this, who, as we all remember, had the bust121 of the philosopher Helvétius removed from the Hall of the Jacobins, because he had taught Frenchmen the lessons of slavery by preaching atheism.... I hope, at least, citoyen Brotteaux, that, as soon as the Republic has established the worship of Reason, you will not refuse your adhesion to so wise a religion!"
"I love reason, but I am no fanatic122 in my love," was Brotteaux's answer. "Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate123 you to crime,"—and he proceeded to develop his thesis, standing both feet in the kennel6, as he had once been used to perorate, seated in one of Baron124 d'Holbach's gilt125 armchairs, which, as he was fond of saying, formed the basis of natural philosophy.
"Jean Jacques Rousseau," he proceeded, "who was not without talents, particularly in music, was a scampish fellow who professed126 to derive127 his morality from Nature while all the time he got it from the dogmas of Calvin. Nature teaches us to devour128 each other and gives us the example of all the crimes and all the vices68 which the social state corrects or conceals129. We should love virtue; but it is well to know that this is simply and solely130 a convenient expedient131 invented by men in order to live comfortably together. What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife132 and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces. She destroys herself, and the more I think of things, the more convinced I am that the universe is mad. Theologians and philosophers, who make God the author of Nature and the architect of the universe, show Him to us as illogical and ill-conditioned. They declare Him benevolent, because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit that His acts are atrocious. They attribute a malignity133 to him seldom to be found even in mankind. And that is how they get human beings to adore Him. For our miserable134 race would never lavish135 worship on just and benevolent deities136 from which they would have nothing to fear; they would feel only a barren gratitude137 for their benefits. Without purgatory138 and hell, your good God would be a mighty139 poor creature."
"Sir," said the Père Longuemare, "do not talk of Nature; you do not know what Nature is."
"Egad, I know it as well as you do, Father."
"You cannot know it, because you have not religion, and religion alone teaches us what Nature is, wherein it is good, and how it has been made evil. However, you must not expect me to answer you; God has vouchsafed140 me, to refute your errors, neither eloquence141 nor force of intellect. I should only be afraid, by my inadequate142 replies, of giving you occasion to blaspheme and further reasons for hardening your heart. I feel a strong desire to help you; yet the sole fruit of my importunate143 efforts would be to...."
The discussion was cut short by a tremendous shout coming from the head of the column to warn the whole regiment144 of famished145 citizens that the baker was opening his doors. The line began to push forward, but very, very slowly. A National Guard on duty admitted the purchasers one by one. The baker, his wife and boy presided over the sale, assisted by two Civil Commissaries. These, wearing a tricoloured riband round the left arm, saw that the customers belonged to the Section and were given their proper share in proportion to the number of mouths to be filled.
The citoyen Brotteaux made the quest of pleasure the one and only aim of life, holding that the reason and the senses, the sole judges when gods there were none, were unable to conceive any other. Accordingly, finding the painter's remarks somewhat overfull of fanaticism146, and the Monk's of simplicity147, to please his taste, this wise man, bent on squaring his behaviour with his views and relieving the tedium148 of waiting, drew from the bulging149 pocket of his plum-coloured coat his Lucretius, now as always his chiefest solace150 and faithful comforter. The binding151 of red morocco was chafed152 by hard wear, and the citoyen Brotteaux had judiciously153 erased154 the coat of arms that once embellished155 it,—three islets or, which his father the financier had bought for good money down. He opened the book at the passage where the poet philosopher, who is for curing men of the futile156 and mischievous13 passion of love, surprises a woman in the arms of her serving-women in a state bound to offend all a lover's susceptibilities. The citoyen Brotteaux read the lines, though not without casting a surreptitious glance at the golden pate157 of the pretty girl in front of him and enjoying a sniff158 of the heady perfume of the little slut's hot skin. The poet Lucretius was a wise man, but he had only one string to his bow; his disciple159 Brotteaux had several.
So he read on, taking two steps forward every quarter of an hour. His ear, soothed160 by the grave and cadenced161 numbers of the Latin Muse162, was deaf to the women's scolding about the monstrous163 prices of bread and sugar and coffee, candles and soap. In this calm and unruffled mood he reached the threshold of the bakehouse. Behind him, évariste Gamelin could see over his head the gilt cornsheaf surmounting164 the iron grating that filled the fanlight over the door.
When his turn came to enter the shop, he found the hampers165 and lockers166 already emptied; the baker handed him the only scrap of bread left, which did not weigh two pounds. évariste paid his money, and the gate was slammed on his heels, for fear of a riot and the people carrying the place by storm.
But there was no need to fear; these poor folks, trained to obedience167 alike by their old-time oppressors and by their liberators of to-day, slunk off with drooping168 heads and dragging feet.
As he reached the corner of the street, Gamelin caught sight of the citoyenne Dumonteil, seated on a stone post, her nursling in her arms. She sat there quite still; her face was colourless and her tearless eyes seemed to see nothing. The infant was sucking her finger voraciously169. Gamelin stood a while in front of her, abashed170 and uncertain what to do. She did not appear to see him.
He stammered171 something, then pulled out his pocket-knife, a clasp-knife with a horn handle, cut his loaf in two and laid half on the young mother's knee. She looked up at him in wonder; but he had already turned the corner of the street.
On reaching home, évariste found his mother sitting at the window darning stockings. With a light laugh he put his half of the bread in her hand.
"You must forgive me, mother dear; I was tired out with standing about and exhausted172 by the heat, and out in the street there as I trudged173 home, mouthful by mouthful I have gobbled up half of our allowance. There's barely your share left,"—and as he spoke, he made a pretence174 of shaking the crumbs175 off his jacket.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Chambre Ardente,—under the ancien régime, a tribunal charged with the investigation of heinous176 crimes and having power to burn those found guilty.
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surmounting
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