On the 4th of August,[2653] the Mauconseil section declares "to the Assembly, to the municipality, and to all the citizens of Paris, that it no longer recognizes Louis XVI.

as King of the French".

Its president, the foreman of a tailor's shop, and its secretary, employed in the leather market, support their manifesto with three lines of a tragedy floating vaguely in their minds,[2654] and name the Boulevard Madeleine St.Honore as a rendezvous on the following Sunday for all well-disposed persons.

On the 6th of August, Varlet, a post-office clerk, makes known to the Assembly, in the name of the petitioners of the Champ de Mars, the program of the faction: 1.

the dethronement of the King, 2.