To be an eye-witness of revolutionary events has never been a guarantee of accurate observation, but it helps in sensing an atmosphere which otherwise soon evaporates. Hence my tentative conclusion that what happened in Paris in May-June of this year was a revolution in the 1789 sense of the word; if it did not become 1792-3-4 (anyway, not yet), it is because General de Gaulle is less honest and more firm than was Louis XVI. On May 30, in a four-minute speech, he said No! to disorder, and permitted this speech to become the instantaneous rallying point for various opponents of revolution.