We'll take off her head, cut her heart out, and fry her liver!" -- With the first murders the appetite for blood has been awakened; the women from Paris say that "they have brought tubs to carry away the stumps of the Royal Guards," and at these words others clap their hands.

Some of the riffraff of the crowd examine the rope of the lamp post in the court of the National Assembly, and judging it not to be sufficiently strong, are desirous of supplying its place with another "to hang the Archbishop of Paris, Maury, and d'Espremenil."-- This murderous, carnivorous rage penetrates even among those whose duty it is to maintain order, one of the National Guard being heard to say that "the body-guards must be killed to the last man, and their hearts torn out for a breakfast." Finally, towards midnight, the National Guard of Paris arrives; but it only adds one insurrection to another, for it has likewise mutinied against its chiefs.[1438] "If M.de Lafayette is not disposed to accompany us," says one of the grenadiers, "we will take an old grenadier for our commander." Having come to this decision, they sought the general at the Hotel-de-Ville, and the delegates of six of the companies made their instructions known to him.
"General, we do not believe that you are a traitor, but we think that the Government is betraying us....

The committee on subsistence is deceiving us, and must be removed.

We want to go to Versailles to exterminate the body-guard and the Flemish regiment who have trampled on the national cockade.

If the King of France is too feeble to wear his crown, let him take it off; we will crown his son and things will go better." In vain Lafayette refuses, and harangues them on the Place de Greve; in vain he resists for hours, now addressing them and now imposing silence.
Armed bands, coming from the Faubourgs Saint-Antoine and Saint-Marceau, swell the crowd; they take aim at him; others prepare the lamp-post.