Morissot, who was anxiously watching his float bobbing up and down, was suddenly seized with the angry impatience of a peaceful man toward the madmen who were firing thus, and remarked indignantly: "What fools they are to kill one another like that!" "They're worse than animals," replied Monsieur Sauvage. And Morissot, who had just caught a bleak, declared: "And to think that it will be just the same so long as there are governments!" "The Republic would not have declared war," interposed Monsieur Sauvage. Morissot interrupted him: "Under a king we have foreign wars; under a republic we have civil war."
