Mirabeau

It is the spirit that inspired the sweet Troubadours, and set the voice of Mirabeau thundering like the mistral.

With Mirabeau as its master spirit, it had done much, some evil, but a great deal that was good.

Was it Mirabeau, Mr. President, or some other master of the human passions, who has told us that words are things?

This phrase of Mirabeau's, though a whit rhetorical, is historically true.

This is identical with Mirabeau's principle of the multiplying of rats in a barn.