Be gone, cruel man, your crimes must end! Damiens was less guilty than thou art! He was punished with the most horrible torture for having tried to rid France of a monster, while you, attempting twenty-five million times more, are allowed full immunity![2530] Let us trample under our feet this simulacra of royalty! Tremble tyrants, Scoevolas are still amongst you!" All this is pronounced, declaimed or rather shouted, publicly, in full daylight, under the King's windows, by stump-speakers mounted on chairs, while similar provocations daily flow from the committee installed in Santerre's establishment, now in the shape of displays posted in the faubourgs, now in that of petitions circulated in the clubs and sections, now through motions which are gotten up "among the groups in the Tuileries, in the Palais-Royal, in the Place de Greve and especially on the Place de la Bastille." After the 2nd of June the leaders founded a new club in the church of the "Enfants Trouves" that they might have their special laboratory and thus do their work on the spot.[2531] Like Plato's demagogues, they understand their business.

They have discovered the cries which make the popular animal take note, what offense offends him, what charm attracts him, and on what road he should be made to follow.

Once drawn in and under way, he will march blindly on, borne along by his own involuntary inspiration and crushing with his mass all that he encounters on his path.
IV .-- The 20th of June.
The programme .-- The muster .-- The procession before the Assembly .-- Irruption into the Chateau .-- The King in the presence of the people.
The bait has been carefully chosen and is well presented.

It takes the form of a celebration of the anniversary of the oath of the Tennis-court.

A tree of Liberty will be planted on the terrace of the Feuillants and "petitions relating to circumstances" will be presented in the Assembly and then to the King.