To achieve this end they will stop at nothing.

They have flouted the authority of the King, and they are silencing by assassination those who raise their voices to condemn them.

Yesterday in Rennes two young men who addressed the people as I am addressing you were done to death in the streets by assassins at the instigation of the nobility.

Their blood cries out for vengeance." Beginning in a sullen mutter, the indignation that moved his hearers swelled up to express itself in a roar of anger.
"Citizens of Nantes, the motherland is in peril.

Let us march to her defence.