The club of the Cordeliers declared in one of its placards that every citizen who belonged to it had sworn individually to poignard the tyrants.

Marat, one of its members, published and distributed in Paris an incendiary proclamation.

"People," said he, "behold the loyalty, the honour, the religion of kings.

Remember Henry III.

and the duke de Guise: at the same table as his enemy did Henry receive the sacrament, and swear on the same altar eternal friendship; scarcely had he quitted the temple than he distributed poignards to his followers, summoned the duke to his cabinet, and there beheld him fall pierced with wounds.