s intolerable. There was "a loud and universal peal of
laughter from all the galleries" on the reading of a letter, in which a
deputy wrote that he was threatened with decapitation.--" Fifty members
were shouting at the same time; the most boisterous night I ever was
witness to in the House of Commons was calmness itself alongside of
this."]

[Footnote 2662: Moniteur, Ibid., p. 371.--Lafayette, I. 467. "On the 9th
of August, as can be seen in the unmutilated editions of the Logographe,
the Assembly, almost to a man, arose and declared that it was not free."
Ibid., 478. "On the 9th of August the Assembly had passed a decree
declaring that it was not free. This decree was torn up on the 10th. But
it is no that it was passed."]

[Footnote 2663: Moniteur, XIII. 370, 374, 375. Speech by Roederer, letter
of M. de Joly, and speech by Petion.]

[Footnote 2664: Mathieu Dumas, "Memoires," II. 461.]

[Footnote 2665: "Chronique des cinquante jours," by
Roederer.--Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 260.--Buchez et Roux, XVI. 458.--Towards
half-past seven in the morning there were only from sixty to eighty
members present. (Testimony of two of the Ministers who leave the
Assembly.)]

[Footnote 2666: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 205. At the ballot of July 12,
not counting members on leave of absence or delegated elsewhere, and
the dead not replaced, there were already twenty-seven not answering the
call, while after that date three others resigned.--Buchez et Roux,
XVII. 340 (session of Sept. 2, 1792). Herault de Sechelles is elected
president by 248 out of 257 voters.--Hua, 164 (after Aug. 10). "We
attended the meetings of the House simply to show that we had not given
them up. We took no part in the discussions, and on the vote being
taken, standing or sitting, we remained in our seats. This was the only
protest we could make."]

[Footnote 2667: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 229, 233, 417 and following pages.
M. Mortimer-Ternaux is the first to expose, with documents to support
him and critical discussion, the formation of the revolutionary
commune.--The six sections referred to are the Lombards, Gravilliers,
Mauconseil, Gobelins, Theatre-Francais, and Faubourg Poissonniere.]

[Footnote 2668: For instance, the Enfants Rouges, Louvre, Observatoire,
Fontaine-Grenelle, Faubourg Saint-Denis, and Thermes de Julien..]

[Footnote 2669: For example, at the sections of Montreuil, Popincourt,
and Roi de Sicile..]

[Footnote 2670: For example, Ponceau, Invalid