2. THE APPARENT INTERVALS OF THE REVOLUTION

            The existence of periods of accentuated calm might give the impression that at such times the Revolution has ceased. It would thus seem that the revolutionary process is not continuous and therefore not one.

            However, these calms are merely metamorphoses of the Revolution. The periods of apparent tranquility-the supposed intervals-have usually been times of silent and profound revolutionary ferment. Consider, for example, the period of the Restoration (18l5~l830). ¹²