During the following month one hundred and twenty give in their resignations, or no longer appear in the Assembly.

Mounier, Lally-Tollendal, the Bishop of Langres, and others besides, quit Paris, and afterwards France.

Mallet du Pan writes, "Opinion now dictates its judgment with steel in hand.

Believe or die is the anathema which vehement spirits pronounce, and this in the name of Liberty.

Moderation has become a crime." After the 7th of October, Mirabeau says to the Comte de la Marck: "If you have any influence with the King or the Queen, persuade them that they and France are lost if the royal family does not leave Paris.
I am busy with a plan for getting them away." He prefers everything to the present situation, "even civil war;" for "war, at least, invigorates the soul," while here, "under the dictatorship of demagogues, we are being drowned in slime." Given up to itself, Paris, in three months, "will certainly be a hospital, and, perhaps, a theater of horrors." Against the rabble and its leaders, it is essential that the King should at once coalesce "with his people," that he should go to Rouen, appeal to the provinces, provide a Centre for public opinion, and, if necessary, resort to armed resistance.
Malouet, on his side, declares that "the Revolution, since the 5th of October, "horrifies all sensible men, and every party, but that it is complete and irresistible." Thus the three best minds that are associated with the Revolution--those whose verified prophecies attest genius or good sense; the only ones who, for two or three years, and from week to week, have always predicted wisely, and who have employed reason in their demonstrations--these three, Mallet du Pan, Mirabeau, Mabuet, agree in their estimate of the event, and in measuring its consequences.