I will frankly declare my opinion: if the Gardes Francaises had acted differently, I should in that case have deemed they had been bought over; for their hostility against the people of Paris would have been unnatural.

My bust was earned with that of M.Necker on the 14th of July.

Why?
because this minister, on whom every public hope reposed, was the idol of the nation, and because my name was amongst the list of those deputies of the Assembly, who, it was said, were to have been arrested by the troops summoned to Versailles.

Amidst all these events, so favourable to a factious man, what was my behaviour?
I withdrew from the eyes of the people: I did not flatter their excesses, but retired to my house at Mousseaux, where I passed the night; and the next morning I went, unattended, to the National Assembly at Versailles.
At the fortunate moment when the king resolved to cast himself into the arms of the Assembly, I refused to form one of the deputation of members despatched to Paris to announce these tidings to the capital, for I feared lest some of the homages which the city owed to the king alone might be paid to me.

And such was again my conduct on the days of October; I again absented myself, not to add fresh fuel to the excitement of the people; and I only reappeared when calm again prevailed.