"When," exclaimed the demagogues, "will the people execute justice for themselves upon all these kings of bronze and marble--shameful monuments of their slavery and their idolatry ?" The statues of the king were torn from the shops; some broke them into pieces, others merely tied a bandage over the eyes, to signify the blindness attributed to the king.

The names of king, queen, Bourbon, were effaced from all the signs.

The Palais Royal lost its name, and was now called Palais d'Orleans.

The clubs, hastily convoked, rang with the most frantic motions; that of the Cordeliers decreed that the National Assembly had devoted France to slavery, by declaring the crown hereditary; they demanded that the name of the king should be for ever abolished, and that the kingdom should be constituted into a republic.

Danton gave it its audacity, and Marat its madness.
The most singular reports were in circulation, and contradicted each other at every moment.