They throw them out of the window and finish their supper, whilst the heart is marched about below in a bouquet of white carnations .-- Such are the spectacles which this garden presents where, a year before, "good society in full dress" came on leaving the Opera to chat, often until two o'clock in the morning, under the mild light of the moon, listening now to the violin of Saint-Georges, and now to the charming voice of Garat.
VIII .-- Paris in the hands of the people.
Henceforth it is clear that no one is safe: neither the new militia nor the new authorities suffice to enforce respect for the law.

"They did not dare," says Bailly,[1255] "oppose the people who, eight days before this, had taken the Bastille."-- In vain, after the last two murders, do Bailly and Lafayette indignantly threaten to withdraw; they are forced to remain; their protection, such as it is, is all that is left, and, if the National Guard is unable to prevent every murder, it prevents some of them.

People live as they can under the constant expectation of fresh popular violence.

"To every impartial man," says Malouet, "the Terror dates from the 14th of July" .-- On the 17th, before setting out for Paris, the King attends communion and makes his will in anticipation of assassination.

From the 16th to the 18th, twenty personages of high rank, among others most of those on whose heads a price is set by the Palais-Royal, leave France: The Count d'Artois, Marshal de Broglie, the Princes de Conde, de Conti, de Lambesc, de Vaudemont, the Countess de Polignac, and the Duchesses de Polignac and de Guiche .-- The day following the two murders, M.de Crosne, M.Doumer, M.Sureau, the most zealous and most valuable members of the committee on subsistence, all those appointed to make purchases and to take care of the storehouses, conceal themselves or fly.