642 (session of June 12, 1792, narrative of M.Delfaux, deputy) .-- The execution of Damiens was witnessed by Parisians still living, while "Charles IX.," by Marie Chenier, was at this time the most popular tragedy.--"The French people," says M.
Ferieres (I.35), "went away from its representation eager for vengeance and tormented with a thirst for blood.

At the end of the fourth act a lugubrious bell announces the moment of the massacre, and the audience, drawing in its breath sighing and groaning, furiously exclaims silence! silence! as if fearing that the sound of this death-knell had not stirred the heart to its very depths."-- "Revolutions de Paris," number for June 23, 1792.

"The speakers, under full sail, distributed their parts amongst themselves," one against the staffs, another against priests, another against judges, department, and the ministers, and especially the king.

"Some there are, and we agree in this with the sieur Delfaux, who pass the measure and advise murder through gestures, eyes, and speech."] [Footnote 2531: Mortimer-Ternaux, I.133 .-- There is the same calculation and the same work-shop in the faubourg Saints-Marcel (report of Saint-Prix, commandant of the Val-de-Grace battalion).

"Minds remained tranquil until a club was opened at the Porte Saint-Marcel; now they are all excited and divided.