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History of the Girondists, Volume I

BOOK XVI
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When once the agitation rose to fever heat, the cry of "_Marchons_" was heard, and the mob set itself in motion down every street.

A few hours afterwards masses of workmen from the quartiers Popincourt, Quinze-Vingts de la Greve, Port au Ble, and the Marche St.Jean, poured from the rues du Faubourg St.Antoine, and covered the Place de la Bastille.

There the tumult of the meeting of all these tributaries of sedition for a moment stayed the progress of this living torrent; but the impulse soon carried them on, and the columns instinctively divided themselves, and plunged into the vast outlets and main streets of Paris.

Some took the line of the boulevards, others marched along the quays to the Pont Neuf, there encountered the column of the Place Maubert, and poured, in constantly increasing masses, on the Palais Royal, and the gardens of the Tuileries.
Such were the plans ordered on the night of the 19th of June, to be executed by the agitators in the different quartiers, and who separated with a rallying word, which gave the movement of the morrow the excitement and uncertainty of hope, and which, without commanding the consummation of crime, yet authorised the last excesses, "_To make an end of the Chateau_." VIII.
Such was the meeting of Charenton, such were the unseen actors who were to set in motion a million of citizens.

Did Laclos and Sillery, who were about to seek a throne for the Duc d'Orleans their master, in the faubourgs, distribute his gold there?
It has been asserted and believed, but never proved, and yet their presence at this meeting is suspicious.
History has the right of suspecting without evidence, but never of accusing without proof.


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