The nation seemed desirous of redeeming these threatening days, and to prove to the king how easy it was to appease the people, and how sweet to it was the reign of liberty! The national acceptance of the laws of the Constituent Assembly was the counterproof of its work.
It had not the legality, but it had really the value, of an individual acceptance by primary assemblies.

It proved that the will of the public mind was satisfied.

The nation voted by acclamation, what the wisdom of its Assembly had voted on reflection.

Nothing but security was wanting to the public feeling.

It seemed as if it desired to intoxicate itself by the delirium of its happiness; and that it compensated, by the very excess of its manifestations of joy, for what it lacked in solidity and duration.
The king sincerely participated in this general joyous feeling.