vii., p. 58.
[20] "Se levant alors, 'Non,' dit le roi, 'ce ne peut etre qu'a
Versailles, a cause des chasses.'"--LOUIS BLANC, ii., p. 212, quoting
Barante.
[21] "La reine adopta ce dernier avis [that the States should meet forty
or sixty leagues from the capital], et elle insista aupres du roi que l'on
s'eloignat de l'immense population de Paris. Elle craignait des lors que
le peuple n'influencat les deliberations des deputes."--MADAME DE CAMPAN,
ch 83.
[22] Chambrier, i., p. 562.
CHAPTER XXIII.
[1] It was called "L'insurrection du Faubourg St. Antoine."
[2] The best account of this riot is to be found in Dr. Moore's "Views of
the Causes and Progress of the French Revolution," i., p. 189.
[3] Madame de Campan specially remarks that the disloyal cry of "Vive le
Duc d'Orleans" came from "les femmes du peuple" (ch. xiii.).
[4] Afterward Louis Philippe, King of the French.
[5] "View of the Causes and Progress of the French Revolution," by Dr.
Moore, i., p. 144.
[6] The dauphin was too ill to be present. The children were Madame Royale
and the Duc de Normandie, who became dauphin the next month by the death
of his elder brother.
[7] "Aucun nom propre, excepte le sien, n'etait encore celebre dans les
six cents deputes du Tiers."--_Considerations sur la Revolution
Francaise_, pp. 186, 187
[8] In the first weeks of the session he told the Count de la Marck, "On
ne sortira plus de la sans un gouvernement plus ou moins semblable a celui
d'Angleterre."--_Correspondance entre le comte de la Marck_, i., p. 67.
[9] He employed M. Malouet, a very influential member of the Assembly, as
his agent to open his views to Necker, saying to him, "Je m'adresse donc a
votre probite. Vous etes lie avec MM. Necker et de Montmorin, vous devez
savoir ce qu'ils veulent, et s'ils ont un plan; si ce plan est raisonnable
je le defendrai."--_Correspondance de Mirabeau et La Marck_, i., p. 219.
[10] There is some uncertainty about Mirabeau's motives and connections at
this time. M. de Bacourt, the very diligent and judicious editor of that
correspondence with De la Marck which has been already quoted, denies that
Mirabeau ever received money from the Duc d'Orleans, or that he had any
connection with his party or his views. The evidence on the other side
seems much stronger, and some of the statements of the Comte de la Marck
contained in that volume go to exculpate Mirabeau from all complicity in
the attack on Versailles
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