On the eve of the two murders, the notaries of Paris, being menaced with a riot, had to advance 45,000 francs which were promised to the workmen of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine; while the public treasury, almost empty, is drained of 30,000 livres per day to diminish the cost of bread .-- Persons and possessions, great and small, private individuals and public functionaries, the Government itself, all is in the hands of the mob.

"From this moment," says a deputy,[1256] "liberty did not exist even in the National Assembly.

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France stood dumb before thirty factious persons.