"During the night of the 31st of July the French Guards on duty at Versailles abandon the custody of the King and betake themselves to Paris, without their officers, but with their arms and baggage," that "they may take part in the cheer which the city of Paris extends to their regiment." At the beginning of September, 16,000 deserters of this stamp are counted.[1416] Now, among those who commit murder these are in the first rank; and this is not surprising when we take the least account of their antecedents, education, and habits.

It was a soldier of the "Royal Croat" who tore out the heart of Berthier.
They were three soldiers of the regiment of Provence who forced the house of Chatel at Saint-Denis, and dragged his head through the streets.

It is Swiss soldiers who, at Passy, knock down the commissioners of police with their guns.

Their headquarters are at the Palais-Royal, amongst women whose instruments they are, and amongst agitators from whom they receive the word of command.

Henceforth, all depends on this word, and we have only to contemplate the new popular leaders to know what it will be.
III .-- The new popular leaders.
Their ascendancy .-- Their education .-- Their sentiments.
-- Their situation .-- Their councils .-- Their denunciations.
Administrators and members of district assemblies, agitators of barracks, coffee-houses, clubs and public thoroughfares, writers of pamphlets, penny-a-liners are multiplying as fast as buzzing insects are hatched on a sultry night.