This pronounced a feeble majority that the Swiss should be admitted; and they instantly entered, amidst the applause of the tribunes, whilst the unfortunate Gouvion left the chamber by the opposite door, his forehead scarlet with indignation, and vowing never to set foot in that Assembly, where he was forced to behold and welcome the murderers of his brother.

He instantly applied to the minister of war to join the army of the north, and fell there.
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The soldiers were introduced, and Collot d'Herbois presented them to the admiring tribunes.

The national guard of Versailles, who had followed them to the Assembly, defiled in the hall amidst the sound of drums, and cries of "_Vive la Nation!_" Groups of citizens and females of Paris, with tricoloured flags and pikes brandished over their heads, followed them; then the members of the popular societies of Paris presented to the president flags of honour given to the Swiss by the departments which these conquerors had just traversed.

The men of the 14th of July, with Gouchon, the agitator of the faubourg St.Antoine, as their spokesman, announced that this faubourg had fabricated 10,000 pikes to defend their liberties and their country.

This legitimate ovation, offered by the Girondists and Jacobins to undisciplined soldiers, authorised the people of Paris to decree to them the triumph of such an infamous proceeding (_le triomphe du scandale_).
It was no longer the people of liberty, but the people of anarchy; the day of the 15th of April combined all its emblems.