The crowd is now sated with shouting and parading; many of them yawn with boredom and weariness;[2543] at four o'clock they have stood on their legs for ten or twelve hours.

The human stream issuing from the Assembly and emptying itself into the Carrousel remains stagnant there and seems ready to return to its usual channels .-- This is not what the leaders had intended.

Santerre, on arriving with Saint-Huruge, cries out to his men, "Why didn't you enter the chateau?
You must go in--that is what we came here for."[2544] A lieutenant of the Val-de-Grace gunners shouts: "We have forced open the Carrousel, we must force open the chateau too! This is the first time the Val-de-Grace gunners march--they are not j....

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Come, follow me, my men, on to the enemy![2545]--"Meanwhile, outside the gate, some of the municipal officers selected by Petion amongst the most revolutionary members of the council, overcome resistance by their speeches and commands.