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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: the fruit of the Revolution, but of the Ancien Regime which preceded
it; and that Robespierre and his "Comite de Salut Public," and
commissioners sent forth to the four winds of heaven in bonnet rouge
and carmagnole complete, to build up and pull down, according to
their wicked will, were only handling, somewhat more roughly, the
same wires which had been handled for several generations by the
Comptroller-General and Council of State, with their provincial
intendants.
"Do you know," said Law to the Marquis d'Argenson, "that this
kingdom of France is governed by thirty intendants? You have
neither parliament, nor estates, nor governors. It is upon thirty
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