his clothes torn, pursued like a
stag across the Palais Royal, falls bleedings on a mattress at the gates
of the Treasury.[2651] On the 29th of July, whilst one of Lafayette's
aides, M. Bureau de Pusy, is at the bar of the house, "they try to have
a motion passed in the Palais Royal to parade his head on the end of a
pike."[2652]--At this level of rage and fear, the brutal and the excited
can wait no longer. On the 4th of August,[2653] the Mauconseil section
declares "to the Assembly, to the municipality, and to all the citizens
of Paris, that it no longer recognizes Louis XVI. as King of the
French". Its president, the foreman of a tailor's shop, and its
secretary, employed in the leather market, support their manifesto with
three lines of a tragedy floating vaguely in their minds,[2654] and
name the Boulevard Madeleine St. Honore as a rendezvous on the following
Sunday for all well-disposed persons. On the 6th of August, Varlet,
a post-office clerk, makes known to the Assembly, in the name of the
petitioners of the Champ de Mars, the program of the faction:

1. the dethronement of the King,

2. the indictment, arrest, and speedy condemnation of Lafayette,

3. the immediate convoking of the primary assemblies,

4. universal suffrage,

5. the discharge of all staff officers,

6. the renewal of the departmental directories,

7. the recall of all ambassadors,

8. the suppression of diplomacy,

9. and a return to the state of nature.

The Girondins may now delay, negotiate, beat about and argue as much as
they please; their hesitation has no other effect that to consign them
into the background, as being lukewarm and timid. Thanks to them, the
(Jacobin) faction now has its deliberative assemblies, its executive
powers, its central seat of government, its enlarged, tried, and ready
army, and, forcibly or otherwise, its program will be carried out.

V.--Evening of August 8.

Session of August 9.--Morning of August 10.--Assembly
purged.

The Assembly must first of all be made to depose the King. Several times
already,[2655] on the 26th of July and August 4, clandestine meetings
had been held where strangers decided the fate of France, and gave
the signal for insurrection.--Restrained with great difficulty, they
consented "to have patience until August 9, at 11 o'clock in the
evening."[2656] On that day the discussion of the dethronement is to
take place in the Assembly, and calculations are mad