M. Conatatini has prohibited M. Sardon's new play, Ther- midor,
sender circumstances described elsewhere. He was probably right. The parties in Paris are perfectly mad with bitterness for and against the Terrorists whom M. Sardon condemns, and any Government is bound to prevent blood- abed in a theatre. We may judge of the reality of Parisian excitement from the speech delivered by M. 016meneeau in the debate of Thursday on the subject. M. Clemeneeau is a reasonable Red, and has been repeatedly named for the Premiership ; yet he declared that an attack on the Terrorists was an attack on the Revolution, that the great uprising must be accepted or rejected whole, and that, in particular, a Revolutionary Tribunal was justifiable. He himself had 'helped to summon General Boulanger before one. Amidst thundering applause from the Left, he accused the ancestors of those who defended the play of having, by their rising in La Vendk, "stabbed France in the back." The speech of itself ustifles M. Constans in suppressing the play; and the Chamber thought so, for it passed to the Order of the Day by 315 to 192.
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