are bent on tormenting."]

[Footnote 2679: Mortimer-Ternaux, III. 223, 273--Letter of Bonnaud,
chief of the Sainte-Marguerite battalion: "I cannot avoid marching at
their head under any pretext... Never will I violate the Constitution
unless I am forced to."--The Gravilliers section and that of the
Faubourg Poissonniere cashiered their officers and elected others.]

[Footnote 2680: Mortimer-Ternaux, IV. 342. Speech of Fabre d'Eglantine
at the Jacobin Club, Nov. 5, 1792. "Let it be loudly proclaimed that
these are the same men who captured the Tuileries, broke into the
prisons of the Abbaye, of Orleans and of Versailles."]

[Footnote 2681: In this respect the riot of the Champ-de-Mars (July 17,
1791), the only one that was suppressed, is very instructive: "As the
militia would not as usual ground their arms on receiving the word of
command from the mob, this last began, according to custom, to pelt them
with stones. To be deprived of their Sunday recreational activities,
to be marching through the streets under a scorching sun, and then be
remain standing like fools on a public holiday, to be knocked out
with bricks, was a little more than they had patience to bear so that,
without waiting for an order, they fired and killed a dozen or two of
the raggamuffins. The rest of the brave chaps bolted. If the militia had
waited for orders they might, I fancy, have been all knocked down
before they received any... Lafayette was very near being killed in the
morning; but the pistol failed to go off at his breast. The assassin was
immediately secured, but he arranged to be let free" (Gouverneur Morris,
letter of July 20, 1791). Likewise, on the 29th of August, 1792, at
Rouen, the national guard, defending the Hotel-de-ville, is pelted with
stones more than an hour while many are wounded. The magistrates make
every concession and try every expedient, the mayor reading the riot act
five or six times. Finally the national guard, forced into it, exclaim:
"If you do not allow us to repel force with force we shall leave." They
fire and four persons are killed and two wounded, and the crowd breaks
up. ("Archives Nationales," F7, 2265, official report of the Rouen
municipality, Aug. 29; addresses of the municipality, Aug. 28; letter of
the lieutenant-colonel of the gendarmerie, Aug. 30, etc.).]

[Footnote 2682: Official report of Leroux.--"Chronique des cinquante
jours," by Roederer.--"Details particuliers sur la journee du 10 Aout,"