Saint-Just’s Notes
Notes extracted from a notebook found on Saint-Just [on] 9 Thermidor.
When the public authorities will find themselves powerless against the crowd and the violence of the people, a flag [that will be] displayed in the middle of the public place will impose peace, and will be the signal that the people will deliberate.
The people will assemble peacefully, and will send its deliberation to the authorities. It will be transmitted to the legislative power.
If anyone troubles the peace of the deliberation of the people, the people will have him arrested and will deliver him to the constituted authorities.
What made [up] the force of the people and of the Jacobins over the last year is that the orators who presented laws in the legislative body, … these laws at the Jacobins. Today the Jacobins do not perform anymore … and one doesn’t think of work there. Thus, it won’t leave laws of an assembly where one part only seeks to offend, and the other only to fight. The Jacobins are good.
Make execute the laws on education; that is the secret.
I demand that every priest shall be required to take up a profession [that is] useful to his concitoyens under the punishment of being deprived of the half of his salary.
Every man who doesn’t have the right sense in the judgement of his fellow humans is a rogue.
The right side wanted the death of the king, and nonetheless the fools of this side defended Louis; that made Fabre say: «They desire the death of the king, because his life is an obstacle to their ambition; but they want to maintain for themselves the semblance of humanity. Thus, they walk in a way [that is] deaf to their plans.»
Lanjuinais, from the right side, didn’t want the death of the king, and nonetheless the others wanted it; they said this, and they applauded to Lanjuinais.
The troubles of the patrie have spread a dark and religious shade over the whole empire. The contemplation is necessary under these painful circumstances; it has to be the nature of all the friends of the Republic.
[Do] not admit the division of properties, but the division of rents.
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