The rebellion begun in Paris is spreading to the countryside. Although Dickens despises mob violence, he recognizes that the abuses of the upper classes brought the country to the point of revolution, saying "Monseigneur as a class had, somehow or other, brought things to this."Dickens also continues his depiction of the revolution as a force of nature when he describes the four members of the Jacquerie who set fire to the chateau as "East, West, North, and South."Rather than giving them names and personas, Dickens has assigned them directions. This technique conveys a sense that the revolutionaries are the "red-hot wind"blowing in every direction to raze all vestiges of the aristocracy.
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