"The National Guard in the procession, writes a patriotic journalist,[26119] "first shows indifference and even boredom"; it is exasperated with night watches and patrol duty; they probably tell each others that in parading for the nation, one finds no time to work for one's self .-- A few days after this the manifesto of the Duke of Brunswick "produces no sensation whatever.
People laugh at it.

Only the newspapers and their readers are familiar with it...

.

The mass know nothing about it.

Nobody fears the coalition nor foreign troops."[26120]--On the 10th of August, outside the theater of the combat, all is quiet in Paris.