"... Prior to 1789, France was already in a revolutionary state. However, the spirit of revolution had not yet matured enough to explode. Therefore, the efforts of the revolutionaries were directed towards the development of this spirit of disobedience, audacity, and hatred against the social order.

While the bourgeois revolutionaries directed their attacks against the government, the revolutionaries of the people - whose names our history has not even preserved - the men of the people were preparing their uprising, their Revolution, through acts of rebellion directed against the masters, the tax collectors, and the exploiters of all products..."