In accordance with this, the "left" has made its arrangements; its fanaticism has no scruples; it is principle, it is absolute truth that is at stake; this must triumph at any cost.

Besides, can there be any hesitation in having recourse to the people in the people's own cause?
A little compulsion will help along the good cause, and hence the siege of the Assembly is continually renewed.

This was the practice already at Versailles before the 6th of October, while now, at Paris, it is kept up more actively and with less disguise.
At the beginning of the year 1790,[2136] the band under pay comprises seven hundred and fifty effective men, most of them deserters or soldiers drummed out of their regiments, who are at first paid five francs and then forty sous a day.

It is their business to make or support motions in the coffee-houses and in the streets, to mix with the spectators at the sittings of the sections, with the groups at the Palais-Royal, and especially in the galleries of the National-Assembly, where they are to hoot or applaud at a given signal.

Their leader is a Chevalier de Saint-Louis, to whom they swear obedience, and who receives his orders from the Committee of Jacobins.