country is at present as near to anarchy as society can approach without dissolution. . . . The authority of the King and the nobility is completely subdued, but yet I tremble for the constitution." As the and of the As the success and power of the conspiracy increased, so did the atrocities, rising to a new level of barbarism during the massacres of September. This period began with the rise to power of the Commune under Marat. success spent many years in England studying and practicing medicine. While in England, he attempted to stir up the people against the government by publishing a pamphlet entitled The Chains of Slavery. This effort failed and he went to France where he was employed by Danton. Marat (a member of the Illurninati) had one consistent theme in his writings, the abolition of all class distinctions, and the destruction of all who resisted. In appearance Marat was an aberration of the human race. A dwarf under five feet high, he had a monstrous parchment. A burning and haggard eye like a hyena added to this, giving him the appearance of something out of this world. He usually wore a ragged coat of faded green, dingy yellow collar, and a dirty handkerchief around his head. "People feared to speak before Marat," says his panegyrist Esquiros; "at the slightest contradiction he shows signs of fury, and if one persisted his the says 45 The French Revolution Morris wrote from France in July of 1789 that "this Jean Paul Marat was a native of Switzerland who had head, a broken nose, and bronze skin like yellowed