the Republic!” this was really a challenge to the old 
     regime, whose friends cried: “Long live the King!” Deep 
     down the army cared nothing for civic liberties. Hatred of 
     foreigners and a love of his native land are generally the 
     only elements of the soldier’s patriotism even in free 
     nations; still more must this have been the case at that 
     time in France. The army, like almost every other army in 
     the world, could make nothing of the slow and 
     complicated gyrations of a representative government; it 
     detested and despised the Assembly, because it 
     understood only powers that were strong and simple; all 
     it wanted was national independence and victories.