ety,
but, on the contrary, put on "an air of inattention and even of noisy
gaiety"; they come out of curiosity, like so many Parisian onlookers,
and are much more numerous than the sans-culottes with their
pikes.[3115] The latter could count themselves and plainly see that they
are just a minority, and a very small one, and that their rage finds
no echo. The organizers and their stooges are the only ones to call for
speedy sentencing and for death-penalties. A foreigner, a good observer,
who questions the shop-keepers of whom he makes purchases, the tradesmen
he knows, and the company he finds in the coffee-houses, writes that he
never had "seen any symptom of a sanguinary disposition except in the
galleries of the National Assembly and at the Jacobin Club," but then
the galleries are full of paid "applauders,' especially "females, who
are more noisy and to be had cheaper than males." At the Jacobin Club
are "the leaders, who dread a turnaround or who have resentments to
gratify[3116]": thus the only enrages are the leaders and the populace
of the suburbs.--Lost in the crowd of this vast city, in the face of a
National Guard still armed and three times their own number, confronting
an indifferent or discontented bourgeoisie, the patriots are alarmed.
In this state of anxiety a feverish imagination, exasperated by the
waiting, involuntarily gives birth to imaginings passionately accepted
as truths. All that is now required is an incident in order to put the
final touch to complete the legend, the germ of which has unwittingly
grown in their minds.

On the 1st of September a poor wagoner, Jean Julien,[3117] condemned to
twelve years in irons, has been exposed in the pillory. After two hours
he becomes furious, probably on account of the jeers of the bystanders.
With the coarseness of people of his kind he has vented his impotent
rage by abuse, he has unbuttoned and exposed himself to the public, and
has naturally chosen expressions which would appear most offensive to
the people looking at him:

"Hurrah for the King! Hurrah for the Queen! Hurra for Lafayette! To hell
with the nation!"

It is also natural that he missed being torn to pieces. He was at once
led away to the Conciergerie prison, and sentenced on the spot to be
guillotined as soon as possible, for being a promoter of sedition in
connection with the conspiracy of August the 10th.--The conspiracy,
accordingly, is still in existence. It is so declared by the t