, et je doute que Mirabeau lui-meme
puisse reparer celui qu'on lui a laisse faire."--_Mirabeau et La Marck_,
i., p. 100.

[4] La Marck et Mirabeau, i., p. 315.

[5] _Ibid._, p. 111.

[6] Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 345.

[7] Mirabeau et La Marck, i., p. 125.

[8] He alludes to Maria Teresa's appearance at Presburg at the beginning
of the Silesian war.

[9] "Il lui [a l'Assemblee] importait de faire une epreuve sur toutes les
Gardes Nationales de France, d'animer ce grand corps dont tous les membres
etaient encore epars et incoherents, de leur donner une meme impulsion....
Enfin, de faire sous les yeux de l'Europe une imposante revue des force
qu'elle pourrait un jour opposer a des rois inquiets ou courrouces."--
LACRETELLE, vii., p. 359.

CHAPTER XXVIII.

[1] We learn from Dr. Moore that there was a leader with five subaltern
officers and one hundred and fifty rank and file in each gallery of the
chamber; that the wages of the latter were from two to three francs a day;
the subaltern had ten francs, the leaders fifty. The entire expense was
about a thousand francs a day, a sum which strengthens the suspicion that
the pay-master (originally, at least) was the Duc d'Orleans.--DR. MOORE'S
_View of the Causes, etc., of the French Revolution_, i., p. 425.

[2] Mirabeau et La Marck, ii., p. 47.

[3] Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 352.

[4] Marie Antoinette to Mercy, Feuillet de Conches, i., p. 355.

[5] _Ibid_., i., p. 365.

[6] Arneth, p. 140.

[7] It is remarkable that he, like one or two of the Girondin party,
belonged by birth to the Huguenot persuasion, and Marat had studied
medicine at Edinburgh.

[8] The Marquise de Brinvilliers had been executed for poisoning several
of her own relations in the reign of Louis XIV.

[9] Madame de Campan, ch. xvii.; Chambrier, ii., p. 12.

[10] He said to La Marck, "Aucun homme seul ne sera capable de ramener les
Francais an bon sens, le temps seul peut retablir l'ordre dans les
esprits," etc., etc.--_ Mirabeau et La Marck_, i., p. 147.

[11] Feuillet de Conches, i., p, 376.

[12] Marie Antoinette to Leopold, date December 11th, 1790, Arneth, p.
143.

CHAPTER XXIX.

[1] The Marshal de Bouille, who was La Fayette's cousin, says, in October
of this year, "L'eveque de Pamiers me fit le tableau de la situation
malheureux de ce prince et de la famille royale ... que la rigueur et
durete de La Fayette, devenu leur geolier, rendent de jour en jour plus
insupportab