The Abbe Fauchet was interdicted, and, struck off the list of the king's preachers.
But the Revolution already opened other tribunes to him.

It burst forth, and he rushed headlong into it, as imagination rushes towards hope.

He fought for it from the day of its birth, and with every kind of weapon.
He shook the people in the primary assemblies, and in the sections; he urged with voice and gesture the insurgent masses under the cannon of the Bastille.

He was seen, sword in hand, to lead on the assailants.
Thrice did he advance, under fire of the cannon, at the head of the deputation which summoned the governor to spare the lives of the citizens, and to surrender.[15] He did not soil his revolutionary zeal with any blood or crime.

He inflamed the mind of the people for liberty; but with him liberty was virtue; nature had endowed him with this twofold character.