x.]

[Footnote 2546: Report by Mouchet.--Deposition of Lareynie. (The
interference of Sergent and Boucher-Rene is contested, but Raederer
thinks it very probable.)]

[Footnote 2547: M. Pinon, in command of the 5th legion, and M. Vannot,
commanding a battalion, tried to shut the iron gate of the archway, but
are driven back and told: "You want thousands to perish, do you, to
save one man?" This significant expression is heard over and over
again during the Revolution, and it explains the success of the
insurrections.--Alexandre, in command of the Saint-Marcel battalion,
says in his report: "Why make a resistance which can be of no usefulness
to the public, one which may even compromise it a great deal more?..."]

[Footnote 2548: Deposition of Lareynie. The attitude of Santerre is here
clearly defined. At the foot of the staircase in the court he is stopped
by a group of citizens, who threaten "to make him responsible for
any harm done," and tell him: "You alone are the author of this
unconstitutional assemblage; it is you alone who have led away these
worthy people. You are a rascal!"--"The tone of these honest citizens in
addressing the sieur Santerre made him turn pale. But, encouraged by
a glance from the sieur Legendre, he resorted to a hypocritical
subterfuge, and addressing the troop, he said: 'Gentlemen, draw up
a report, officially stating that I refuse to enter the king's
apartments.' The only answer the crowd made, accustomed to divining what
Santerre meant, was to hustle the group of honest citizens out of the
way."]

[Footnote 2549: Depositions of four of the national guard, Lecrosnier,
Gosse, Bidault, and Guiboult.--Reports of Acloque and de Lachesnaye,
commanding officers of the legion.--"Chronique des cinquante jours," by
Roederer.--Ibid. p.65: "I have to state that, during the Convention, the
butcher Legendre declared to Boissy d'Anglas, from whom I had it, that
the plan was to kill the king."--Prudhomme, "Crimes de la Revolution,"
III.43. "The king was to be assassinated. We heard citizens all in rags
say that it was a pity; he looks like a good sort of a bastard."]

[Footnote 2550: Madame Campan, "Memoires," II. 212. "M. Vannot,
commander of the battalion, had turned aside a weapon aimed at the king.
One of the grenadiers of the Filles-Saint-Thomas warded off a blow with
a sword, aimed in the same direction with the same intention."]

[Footnote 2551: Declaration of Lachesnaye, in command of the
l