They retreated from the city amidst victorious cries from the royalists.

The following day was a series of fetes, in which the royalists of the town and those of the city celebrated their common triumph, and fraternised together.

They insulted all the emblems of the Revolution; hooted the constitution; plundered the hall of the Jacobins; burnt down the houses of the principal members of this hateful club--put some in prison.

But their vengeance confined itself to outrage.

The people, controlled by the gentlemen and the _cures_, spared the blood of their enemies.
XIV.
Whilst humiliated liberty was threatened by fanaticism in the south, it, in its turn, carried on the work of assassination in the north.