Some appear to belong to the first rank in their calling, and to have tact and the manners of society--suppose, for instance, that Champfort and Laclos sent their mistresses.

To these must be added washerwomen, beggars, bare-footed women, and fishwomen, enlisted for several days before and paid accordingly.

This is the first nucleus, and it keeps on growing; for, by compulsion or consent, the troop incorporates into it, as it passes along, all the women it encounters--seamstresses, portresses, housekeepers, and even respectable females, whose dwellings are entered with threats of cutting off their hair if they do not fall in.

To these must be added vagrants, street-rovers, ruffians and robbers--the lees of Paris, which accumulate and come to the surface every time agitation occurs: they are to be found already at the first hour, behind the troop of women at the Hotel-de-Ville.

Others are to follow during the evening and in the night.