According to them, the palace of the monarch belongs to the public; people may enter it as they would a coffee-house; in any event, as the municipality is occupied with other matters, it cannot be expected to keep people out.

"Is there nothing else to guard in Paris but the Tuileries and the King ?"[2612]--Another maneuver consists in rendering the King's instruments powerless.

Honorable and inoffensive as the new ministers may be, they never appear in the Assembly without being hooted at in the tribunes.

Isnard, pointing with his finger to the principal one, exclaims: "That is a traitor!"[2613] Every popular outburst is imputed to them as a crime, while Guadet declares that, "as royal counselors, they are answerable for any disturbances" that the double veto might produce.[2614] Not only does the faction declare them guilty of the violence provoked by itself, but, again, it demands their lives for the murders which it commits.

"France must know," says Vergniaud, "that hereafter ministers are to answer with their heads for any disorders of which religion is the pretext."-- "The blood just spilt at Bordeaux," says Ducos, "may be laid at the door of the executive power.