TWO:But however hard she worked, the family finances did not become sufficiently flourishing to satisfy Mme. Vig��e, who, driven to desperation by their poverty, and of course anxious about the future, everything depending upon the work of a delicate girl of fourteen, resolved to marry again, and unfortunately selected a rich jeweller of her acquaintance, to whose house in the rue St. Honor�� she removed with her children after the marriage.Many such undoubtedly there were; the laws [9] were terribly oppressive, the privileges of the favoured classes outrageously unjust; while as for public opinion, Barbier himself remarks that the public is a fool, and must always be unworthy of the consideration of any man.

TWO:The prisons were thrown open, the Directoire was far milder than the Convention, pardons were obtained in numbers, especially by T��r��zia, who, when she could not succeed in saving persons in danger in any other way, had often risked her own safety to help and conceal them.