."]
[Footnote 2609: Mortimer-Ternaux, I. 245, 246.--II. 81, 131, 148, 170.]
[Footnote 2610: The murder of M. Duhamel, sub-lieutenant of the national
guard.]
[Footnote 2611: Letter of Vergniaud and Guadet to the painter Boze (in
the "Memoires de Dumouriez").--Roederer, "Chronique des cinquante jours,"
295.--Bertrand de Molleville, "Memoires," III. 29.]
[Footnote 2612: Moniteur, XIII. 155 (session of July
16).--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 69. "Favored by you," says Manuel, "all
citizens are entitled to visit the first functionary of the nation...
The prince's dwelling should be open, like a church. Fear of the people
is an insult to the people. If Louis XVI. possessed the soul of a Marcus
Aurelius, he would have descended into his gardens and tried to
console a hundred thousand beings, on account of the slowness of the
Revolution... Never had there been fewer thieves in the Tuileries than
on that day; for the courtiers had fled...The red cap was an honor to
Louis XVI's head, and ought to be his crown." At this solemn moment the
fraternization of the king with the people took place, and "the next day
the same king betrayed, calumniated, and disgraced the people!" Manuel's
rigmarole surpasses all that can be imagined. "After this there arises
in the panelings of the Louvre, at the confluence of the civil list,
another channel, which leads through the shades below to Petion's
dungeon... The department, in dealing a blow at the municipality,
explains how, at the banquet of the Law, it represents the Law in the
form of a crocodile, etc."]
[Footnote 2613: Moniteur, XIII. 93 (session of July 9);--27 (session of
July 2).]
[Footnote 2614: Moniteur, XII. 751 (session of June 24); XIII.33
(session of July 3).]
[Footnote 2615: Moniteur, XIII. 224 (session of July 23). Two unsworn
priests had just been massacred at Bordeaux and their heads carried
through the streets on pikes. Ducos adds: "Since the executive power has
put its veto on laws repressing fanaticism, popular executions begin to
be repeated. If the courts do not render justice, etc."--Ibid., XIII.
301 (session of July 31).]
[Footnote 2616: Moniteur, XIII. 72 (session of July 7). The king's
speech to the Assembly after the Lamourette kiss. "I confess to you, M.
President, that I was very anxious for the deputation to arrive, that I
might hasten to the Assembly."]
[Footnote 2617: Moniteur, XIII. 313 (session of Aug. 3). The declaration
read in the king's name m
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