maginary brigands who are cutting down the crops at Montmorency and the
volley fired in the air.--Conquest of Ile-Adam and Chantilly.]

[Footnote 1406: Bailly, II. 46, 95, 232, 287, 296.]

[Footnote 1407: "Archives de la Prefecture de Police," minutes of the
meeting of the section of Butte des Moulins, October 5, 1789.]

[Footnote 1408: Bailly, II. 224.--Dusaulx, 418, 202, 257, 174, 158. The
powder transported was called poudre de traite (transport); the people
understood it as poudre de traitre (traitor). M. de la Salle was near
being killed through the addition of an r. It is he who had taken
command of the National Guard on the 13th of July.]

[Footnote 1409: Floquet, VII. 54. There is the same scene at Granville,
in Normandy, on the 16th of October. A woman had assassinated her
husband, while a soldier who was her lover is her accomplice; the woman
was about to be hung and the man broken on the wheel, when the populace
shout, "The nation has the right of pardon," upset the scaffold, and
save the two assassins.]

[Footnote 1410: Bailly, II. 274 (August 17th).]

[Footnote 1411: Bailly, II, 83, 202, 230, 235, 283, 299.]

[Footnote 1412: Mercure de France, the number for September 26th.--De
Goncourt, p. 111.]

[Footnote 1413: Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," I, 58; X. 151.]

[Footnote 1414: De Ferrieres, I. 178.--Buchez and Roux, II. 311,
316.--Bai11y, II. 104, 174, 207, 246, 257, 282.]

[Footnote 1415: Mercure de France, September 5th, 1789. Horace Walpole's
Letters, September 5, 1789.--M. de Lafayette, "Memoires," I. 272. During
the week following the 14th of July, 6,000 soldiers deserted and went
over to the people, besides 400 and 800 Swiss Guards and six battalions
of the French Guards, who remain without officers, and do as they
please. Vagabonds from the neighboring villages flock in, and there are
more than "30,000 strangers and vagrants" in Paris.]

[Footnote 1416: Bailly, II. 282. The crowd of deserters was so great
that Lafayette was obliged to place a guard at the barriers to keep them
from entering the city. "Without this precaution the whole army would
have come in."]

[Footnote 1417: De Ferrieres, I. 103.--De Lavalette, I. 39.--Bailly, I.
53 (on the lawyers). "It may be said that the success of the Revolution
is due to this class."--Marmontel, II. 243 "Since the first elections
of Paris, in 1789, I remarked," he says, "this species of restless
intriguing men, contending with each other to be hear