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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.