"While the alarm lasts, the first story of each house is to be lighted with lamps during the night: all citizens of the district are requested to be at home by ten o'clock in the evening at the latest, unless they should be on duty...

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All citizens are invited to communicate whatever they may learn or discover in relation to the abominable plots which are secretly going on in the capital."] [Footnote 2153: Letter of M.de Guillermy, July 31, 1790 ("Actes des Apotres," V.56).

"During these two nights (July 13th and 14th, 1789) that we remained in session I heard one deputy try to get it believed that an artillery corps had been ordered to point its guns against our hall; another, that it was undermined, and that it was to be blown up; another went so far as to declare that he smelt powder, upon which M.le Comte de Virieu replied that power had no odor until it was burnt."] [Footnote 2154: Dumont, 351.

"Each constitutional law was a party triumph."] [Footnote 2155: Here Taine indicates how subversive parties may proceed to weaken a nation prior to their take-over.( SR.)].