The clapping of hands, the cheers of laughter of this multitude without encouraged the assailants.

Menacing dialogues in loud tones took place between the malcontents above and the impatient who were below.

"Have they struck him ?--is he dead ?--throw us the heads!" they shouted.

Members of the Assembly, Girondist journalists, political characters, Garat, Gorsas, Marat, mingled in this crowd, and uttered their jokes as to this martyrdom of shame to which the king was being subjected.

There was for a moment a report of his assassination.
There was no cry of horror thereat among the populace, which raised its eyes towards the balcony, expecting to see the carcase.