And the high court of Orleans," continued Huguenin, "what is that doing ?--where are the heads of those it should have doomed to death ?" These sinister expressions threw the constitutionalists into alarm, and caused the Girondists to smile.

The president, however, replied with a firmness which was not sustained by the attitude of his colleagues.

It was decided that the people of the faubourgs should be allowed to defile before them under arms.
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Immediately after this decree was voted, the doors, besieged by the multitude opened, and admitted thirty thousand petitioners.

During this long procession the band played the demagogical airs of the _Carmagnole_ and the _Ca Ira_, those _pas de charge_ of revolts.

Females, armed with sabres, brandished them at the tribunes, who loudly applauded, and danced before a table of stone, on which were engraved the rights of man, like the Israelites before the Ark.