Armes. One of the bands cuts up a slaughtered horse,
roasts it, and consumes it half raw, after the manner of savages. It is
not surprising that, under the names of patriotism and "justice," savage
ideas spring up in their minds against "members of the National Assembly
who are not with the principles of the people," against "the Bishop
of Langres, Mounier, and the rest." One man in a ragged old red coat
declares that "he must have the head of the Abbe Maury to play nine-pins
with." But it is especially against the Queen, who is a woman, and in
sight, that the feminine imagination is the most aroused.

"She alone is the cause of the evils we endure.... she must be killed,
and quartered." --Night advances; there are acts of violence, and
violence engenders violence.

"How glad I should be," says one man, "if I could only lay my hand on
that she-devil, and strike off her head on the first curbstone!"

Towards morning, some cry out,

"Where is that cursed cat? We must eat her heart out... We'll take
off her head, cut her heart out, and fry her liver!" --With the first
murders the appetite for blood has been awakened; the women from Paris
say that "they have brought tubs to carry away the stumps of the
Royal Guards," and at these words others clap their hands. Some of the
riffraff of the crowd examine the rope of the lamp post in the court of
the National Assembly, and judging it not to be sufficiently strong, are
desirous of supplying its place with another "to hang the Archbishop
of Paris, Maury, and d'Espremenil."--This murderous, carnivorous rage
penetrates even among those whose duty it is to maintain order, one
of the National Guard being heard to say that "the body-guards must be
killed to the last man, and their hearts torn out for a breakfast."

Finally, towards midnight, the National Guard of Paris arrives; but
it only adds one insurrection to another, for it has likewise mutinied
against its chiefs.[1438]

"If M. de Lafayette is not disposed to accompany us," says one of the
grenadiers, "we will take an old grenadier for our commander."

Having come to this decision, they sought the general at the
Hotel-de-Ville, and the delegates of six of the companies made their
instructions known to him.

"General, we do not believe that you are a traitor, but we think that
the Government is betraying us.... The committee on subsistence is
deceiving us, and must be removed. We want to go to Versailles to
exterminate