tnote 2648: Buchez et Roux, XIX 93, session of Sept. 23, 1792.
Speech by Panis: "Many worthy citizens would like to have judicial
proof; but political proofs satisfy us"--Towards the end of July the
Minister of the Interior had invited Petion to send two municipal
officers to examine the Tuileries; but this the council refused to do,
so as to keep up the excitement.]

[Footnote 2649: Mallet du Pan, "Memoires," 303. Letter of Malouet, June
29.--Bertrand de Molleville, "Memoires," II. 301.--Hua, 148.--Weber, II.
208.--Madame Campan, "Memoires," II. 188. Already, at the end of 1791,
the king was told that he was liable to be poisoned by the pastry-cook
of the palace, a Jacobin. For three or four months the bread and pastry
he ate were secretly purchased in other places. On the 14th of July,
1792, his attendants, on account of the threats against his life, put a
breastplate on him under his coat.]

[Footnote 2650: member of the 1789 Constituent Assembly. (SR).]

[Footnote 2651: Moniteur, VIII. 271, 278. A deputy, excusing his
assailants, pretends that d'Espremesnil urged the people to enter the
Tuileries garden. It is scarcely necessary to state that during the
Constituent Assembly d'Espremenil was one of the most conspicuous
members of the extreme "Right."--Duc de Gaete, "Memoires," I. 18.]

[Footnote 2652: Lafayette, "Memoires," I. 465.]

[Footnote 2653: Moniteur, XIII. 327,--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 176.]

[Footnote 2654: Moniteur, XIII. 340.--The style of these petitions
is highly instructive. We see in them the state of mind and degree
of education of the petitioners: sometimes a half-educated writer
attempting to reason in the vein of the Contrat Social; sometimes, a
schoolboy spouting the tirades of Raynal; and sometimes, the corner
letter-writer putting together the expressions forming his stock in
trade.]

[Footnote 2655: Carra, "Precis historique sur l'origine et les
veritables auteurs de l'insurrection du 10 Aout."--Barbaroux, "Memoires,
49. The executive directory, appointed by the central committee of the
confederates, held its first meeting in a wine-shop, the Soleil d'or,
on the square of the Bastille; the second at the Cadran bleu, on the
boulevard; the third in Antoine's room, who then lodged in the same
house with Robespierre. Camille Desmoulins was present at this latter
meeting. Santerre, Westermann, Fournier the American, and Lazowski were
the principal members of this Directory. Another insurrectio