A word--a gesture--a chance--the assembling a body of troops--a day's scarcity--the vehement address of an orator in the Palais Royal, sufficed to excite the populace to revolt, or to march on Versailles.

The spirit of sedition was confounded with the spirit of the Revolution.

Every one was factious--every one was a soldier--every one was a leader.

Public passion gave the signal, and chance commanded.
Since the Revolution was accomplished, and the constitution had imposed on each party legal order, it was different.

The insurrections of the people were no longer agitations, but plans.