Before dismissing Roland and Servan, he desires to furnish some striking proof of his pacific intentions by sanctioning the dissolution of his guard and disarming himself not only for attack but for defense; henceforth he sits at home and awaits the insurrection with which he is daily menaced; he resigns himself to everything, except drawing his sword; his attitude is that of a Christian in the amphitheatre.[2517]--The proposition of a camp outside Paris, however, draws out a protest from 8,000 Paris National Guards.

Lafayette denounces to the Assembly the usurpations of the Jacobins; the faction sees that its reign is threatened by this reawakening and union of the friends of order.

A blow must be struck.
This has been in preparation for a month past, and to renew the days of October 5th and 6th, the materials are not lacking.
II .-- The floating and poor population of Paris.
Disposition of the workers .-- Effect of poverty and want of work .-- Effect of Jacobin preaching .-- The revolutionary army .-- Quality of its recruits--Its first review .-- Its actual effective force.
Paris always has its interloping, floating population.

A hundred thousand of the needy, one-third of these from the departments, "beggars by race," those whom Retif de la Bretonne had already seen pass his door, Rue de Bievre, on the 13th of July, 1789, on their way to join their fellows on the suburb of St.Antoine,[2518] along with them "those frightful raftsmen," pilots and dock-hands, born and brought up in the forests of the Nievre and the Yonne, veritable savages accustomed to wielding the pick and the ax, behaving like cannibals when the opportunity offers,[2519] and who will be found foremost in the ranks when the September days come.

Alongside these stride their female companions "barge-women who, embittered by toil, live for the moment only," and who, three months earlier, pillaged the grocer-shops.[2520] All this "is a frightful crowd which, every time it stirs, seems to declare that the last day of the rich and well-to-do has come; tomorrow it is our turn, to-morrow we shall sleep on eiderdown."-- Still more alarming is the attitude of the steady workmen, especially in the suburbs.