the Feuillants terrace, that is to say, right under the windows of the
Convention, "they urge the assassination of Louvel for having denounced
Robespierre. "--Minister Roland writes: "I hear of nothing but
conspiracy and plans to murder."--Three weeks later, for several days,
"an up-rising is announced in Paris";[3434] the Minister is warned that
"alarm guns would be fired," while the heads are designated beforehand
on which this ever muttering insurrection will burst. In the following
month, in spite of the recent precise law, "the electoral assembly
prints and circulates gratis the list of members of the Feuillants and
Sainte-Chapelle clubs; it likewise orders the printing and circulation
of the list of the eight thousand, and of the twenty thousand, as well
as of the clubs of 1789 and of Montaigu."[3435] In January, "hawkers cry
through the streets a list of the aristocrats and royalists who voted
for an appeal to the people."[3436] Some of the appelants are singled
out by name through placards; Thibaut, bishop of Cantal, while reading
the poster on the wall relating to him, hears some one along side of him
say: "I should like to know that bishop of Cantal; I would make bread
tasteless to him." Roughs point out certain deputies leaving the
Assembly, and exclaim: "Those are the beggars to cut up!"--From week
to week signs of insurrection increase and multiply, like flashes of
lightning in a coming tempest. On the 1st of January, "it is rumored
that the barriers are to be closed at night, and that domiciliary visits
are going to begin again."[3437] On the 7th of January, on the motion of
the Gravilliers section, the Commune demands of the Minister of War 132
cannon stored at Saint Denis, to divide among the sections. On the
15th of January the same section proposes to the other forty-seven to
appoint, as on the 10th of August, special commissaries to meet at
the Eveche and watch over public safety. That same day, to prevent the
Convention from misunderstanding the object of these proceedings, it is
openly stated in the tribunes that the cannon brought to Paris "are for
another 10th of August against that body." The same day, military force
has to be employed to prevent bandits from going to the prisons "to
renew the massacres." On the 28th of January the Palais-Royal, the
resort of the pleasure-seeking, is surrounded by Santerre, at eight
o'clock in the evening, and "about six thousand men, found without a
certificate