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Mignet writes that the 10 August " marked ... the insurrection of the multitude against the middle classes and the constitutional throne, as the 14 July had seen the insurrection of the middle class against the privileged class and the absolute power of the crown.

On the 10 August began the dictatorial and arbitrary epoch of the revolution ...

The nature of the question was then entirely changed ; it was no longer a matter of liberty, but of public safety ; and the Conventional period, from the end of the Constitution of 1791, to the time when the Constitution of the Year III established the Directory, was only a long campaign of the revolution against parties and against Europe.