he king, his sister, the
children, the _bonnets rouges_, the cockades forcibly placed on their
heads; the dishevelled hair of the queen, her pale features, the
tremulousness of her lips, her eyes streaming with tears, were tokens
more evident than these spoils left by the people on the battle ground
of sedition. This spectacle moistened the eyes, and excited the
indignation, even of the deputies most hostile to the court. The queen
saw this: "You weep, sir?" she said to Merlin. "Yes, madame," replied
the stoic deputy; "I weep over the misfortunes of the woman, the wife,
and the mother; but my sympathy goes no further. I hate kings and
queens!"

Such was the day of the 20th of June. The people displayed discipline in
disorder, and forbearance in violence: the king, heroic intrepidity in
his resignation; and some of the Girondists, a cold brutality which
gives to ambition the mask of patriotism.

XXVI.

Every thing was preparing in the departments to send to Paris the 20,000
troops ordered by the Assembly. The Marseillais, summoned by Barbaroux
at the instigation of Madame Roland, were approaching the capital. It
was the fire of the soul in the south coming to rekindle the
revolutionary hearth, which, as the Girondists believed, was failing in
Paris. This body of twelve or fifteen hundred men was composed of
Genoese, Ligurians, Corsicans, Piedmontese, banished from their country
and recruited suddenly on the shores of the Mediterranean; the majority
sailors or soldiers accustomed to warfare, and some bandits, hardened in
crime. They were commanded by young men of Marseilles, friends of
Barbaroux and Isnard. Rendered fanatic by the climate and the eloquence
of the provincial clubs, they came on amidst the applauses of the
population of central France, received, feted, overcome by enthusiasm
and wine at the patriotic banquets which hailed them in constant
succession on their way. The pretext of their march was to fraternise,
at the federation of the 14th of July[25], with the other _federes_ of
the kingdom. The secret motive was to intimidate the Parisian national
guard, to revive the energy of the faubourgs, and to be the vanguard of
that camp of 20,000 men which the Girondists had made the Assembly vote,
in order at the same time to control the Feuillants, the Jacobins, the
king, and the Assembly itself, with an army from the departments wholly
composed of their creatures. The sea of people was violently agitated on