"To the lamp post with all those who refuse!" On the 27th of September, 1790, M.Dupont, economist, having spoken against the assignats, is surrounded on leaving the Chamber and hooted at, hustled, pushed against the basin of the Tuileries, into which he was being thrown when the guard rescued him.

On the 21st of June, 1790, M.de Cazales just misses "being torn to pieces by the people."[2140] Deputies of the "right" are threatened over and over again by gestures in the streets and in the coffee-houses; effigies of them with ropes about the neck are publicly displayed.

The Abbe Maury is several times on the point of being hung: he saves himself once by presenting a pistol.

Another time the Vicomte de Mirabeau is obliged to draw his sword.

M.de Clermont-Tonnerre, having voted against the annexation of the Comtat to France, is assailed with chairs and clubs in the Palais-Royal, pursued into a porter's room and from thence to his dwelling; the howling crowd break in the doors, and are only repelled with great difficulty.