ablishment of Philip V. in Spain cost France two milliards.
Even at the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July.
However, we reject these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words.
An uprising being given, we examine it by itself.
In all that is said by the doctrinarian objection above presented, there is no question of anything but effect, we seek the cause.
We will be explicit.
BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832
CHAPTER II
THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the wrong, the other is in the right.
In democratic states, the only ones which are founded on justice, it sometimes happens that the fraction usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may proceed as far as resort to arms.
In all questions which result from collective sovereignty, the war of the whole against the fraction is insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; according as the Tuileries contain a king or the Convention, they are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of Vendemiaire.
Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; the Swiss defend the false, Bonaparte defends the true.