ities,
is that whose noisy harangues fill the streets, Squares, and public
gardens of the capital, that which excites seditious gatherings, that
which constantly fosters anarchy and contempt for the laws--that, in
fine, whose clamor, far from reflecting public Opinion, indicates the
extreme effort made to prevent the expression of public opinion... We
have studied the opinion of the people of Paris among those useful
and laborious men warmly attached to the State at all points of their
existence through every object of their affection, among owners of
property, tillers of the soil, tradesmen and workers... An inviolable
attachment... to the constitution, and mainly to national Sovereignty,
to political equality and constitutional monarchy, which are its most
important characteristics and their almost unanimous sentiment."]

[Footnote 2372: Governor Morris, letter of June 20, 1792.]

[Footnote 2373: "Souvenirs", by Pasquier (Etienne-Dennis, duc),
chancelier de France. in VI volumes, Librarie Plon, Paris 1893. Vol. I.
page 84.]

[Footnote 2374: Malouet, II. 203. "Every report that came in from the
provinces announced (to the King and Queen) a perceptible amelioration
of public opinion, which was becoming more and more perverted. That
which reached them was uninfluenced, whilst the opinions of clubs,
taverns, and street-corners gained enormous power, the time being at
hand when there was to be no other power." The figures given above are
by Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," II. 120.]

[Footnote 2375: Moniteur, XII. 776 (session of June 28). Speech by M.
Lamarque, in a district court: "The incivism of the district courts in
general is well known."]

[Footnote 2376: Bertand de Molleville, "Memoires," VI. 22.--After having
received the above instructions from the King, Bertrand calls on the
Queen, who makes the same remark: "Do you not think that fidelity to
one's oath is the only plan to pursue?" "Yes, Madame, certainly." "Very
well; rest assured that we shall not waver. Come, M. Bertrand, take
courage; I hope that with firmness, patience, and what comes of that,
all is not yet lost."]

[Footnote 2377: M. de Lavalette, "Memoires," I. 100.--Lavalette, in the
beginning of September, 1792, enlists as a volunteer and sets out, along
with two friends, carrying his knapsack on his back, dressed in a short
and wearing a forage cap. The following shows the sentiments of the
peasantry: In a village of makers of wooden shoes, near Ver