She elevated her voice amidst the stormy meetings of the clubs, and from the galleries blamed their conduct.

Sometimes she spoke at the Cordeliers.
Camille Desmoulins mentions the enthusiasm which her harangues created.
"Her similes," says he, "were drawn from the Bible and Pindar,--it was the eloquence of a Judith." She proposed to build the palace of the representative body on the site of the Bastille.

"To found and embellish this edifice," said she, "let us strip ourselves of our ornaments, our gold, our jewels.

I will be the first to set the example." And with these words she tore off her ornaments in the tribune.

Her ascendency during the _emeutes_ was so great, that with a single sign she condemned or acquitted a victim; and the royalists trembled to meet her.
During this period, by one of those chances that appear like the premeditated vengeances of destiny, she recognised in Paris the young Belgian gentleman who had seduced and abandoned her.