'How could they let those rascals in?
Four or five hundred of them ought to have been swept off with cannon, and the rest would still be running!'"] [Footnote 2543: "Chronique des cinquante jours," by Roederer .-- Deposition of Lareynie.] [Footnote 2544: Deposition of Lareynie.] [Footnote 2545: Report of Saint-Prix.] [Footnote 2546: Report by Mouchet .-- Deposition of Lareynie.

(The interference of Sergent and Boucher-Rene is contested, but Raederer thinks it very probable.)] [Footnote 2547: M.Pinon, in command of the 5th legion, and M.Vannot, commanding a battalion, tried to shut the iron gate of the archway, but are driven back and told: "You want thousands to perish, do you, to save one man ?" This significant expression is heard over and over again during the Revolution, and it explains the success of the insurrections .-- Alexandre, in command of the Saint-Marcel battalion, says in his report: "Why make a resistance which can be of no usefulness to the public, one which may even compromise it a great deal more ?..."] [Footnote 2548: Deposition of Lareynie.

The attitude of Santerre is here clearly defined.

At the foot of the staircase in the court he is stopped by a group of citizens, who threaten "to make him responsible for any harm done," and tell him: "You alone are the author of this unconstitutional assemblage; it is you alone who have led away these worthy people.

You are a rascal!"-- "The tone of these honest citizens in addressing the sieur Santerre made him turn pale.