Do you not blush that a handful of turbulent men, who appear numerous because they are united and make a noise, should constrain you to do their pleasure, by telling you it is your own, and by amusing your puerile curiosity by unworthy spectacles?
In a city that respected itself, such a _fete_ would find before it silence and solitude, the streets and public places abandoned, the houses shut up, the windows deserted, and the flight and scorn of the passers-by would tell history what share honest and well-disposed men took in this scandalous and bacchanalian procession." XVIII.
Collot d'Herbois insulted Andre Chenier and Roucher in his reply.
Roucher replied by a letter full of sarcasm, in which he reminded Collot d'Herbois of his falls on the stage and his misadventures as an actor.
"This personage of comic romance," said he, "who has leapt from the trestles of Punch to the tribune of the Jacobins, rushes at me, as though to strike me with the oar the Swiss have brought him from the galleys." Placards for or against the _fete_ covered the walls of the Palais Royal, and were alternately torn down by groups of young men or Jacobins.
Dupont de Nemours, the friend and master of Mirabeau, laid aside his philosophical calm, to address a letter on the same subject to Petion, in which his conscience, as an honest man, braved the popularity of the tribune.

"When the danger is imminent, it is the duty of all honest men to warn the magistrates of it.

More particularly, when the magistrates themselves create it.

You told a falsehood when you asserted that these soldiers had aided the Revolution on the 14th of July, and that they had refused to combat against the people of Paris.

It is untrue that the Swiss refused to combat against the people of Paris, and it is true that they assassinated the national guards of Nancy.