Always ready to
sacrifice himself for the Revolution and the law, it was in the name of
the Revolution and the law that he was required to march to Nancy with
the brave National Guards. There he fell, pierced by fifty bayonets in
the hands of those who.... I ask if I am condemned to look on
tranquilly while the assassins of my brother enter here?" A voice
rising from the midst of the Assembly cried: "Very well, sir, go out!"
The galleries applauded. Gouvion attempted to continue. The murmurs
redoubled. Several persons in the galleries cried: "Down! down!"

The Assembly, revolutionary though it was, felt {117} indignant at the
scandal, and called the galleries to order. The president reiterated
the injunction to keep silence. Gouvion began anew: "I treat with all
the contempt he merits, and with ... I would say the word if I did not
respect the Assembly--the coward who has been base enough to outrage a
brother's grief." The question was then put whether the Swiss of
Chateauvieux should be admitted to the honors of the session. Out of
546 votes, 288 were in the affirmative, and 265 in the negative.
Consequently, the president announced that the soldiers of
Chateauvieux, who had asked to present themselves to the Assembly,
should be admitted to the honors of the session. Gouvion went out by
one door, indignant, and swearing that he would never re-enter an
Assembly which received his brother's assassins as conquerors. By
another door, Collot d'Herbois made his entry with his proteges, the
ex-galley slaves.

The party of the left and the spectators in the galleries burst into
transports of joy, and gave three rounds of applause. The soldiers
entered the hall to the beating of drums and cries of "Long live the
nation!" They were followed by a large procession of men and women
carrying pikes and banners. Collot d'Herbois, the showman of the
Swiss, pronounced an emphatic address in praise of the pretended
martyrs of liberty, which the Assembly ordered to be printed. One
Goachon, speaking for the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and holding a pike
ornamented with a {118} red liberty cap, exclaimed: "The citizens of
the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the victors of the Bastille, the men of
July 14, have charged me to warn you that they are going to make ten
thousand more pikes after the model which you see."

The fete took place on Sunday, April 15. It was the triumph of
anarchy, the glorification of indiscipline and revolt