1795) that was when he, as a young officer was given the task to defend the Convention against a royalist uprising.
He was quick-witted and got hold of some guns in time, loaded them with grape-shot, placed them in front of the Parisian church of Saint-Roch and completely eliminated the superior royalist force.

SR.)] [Footnote 2678: Official report of Leroux.

On the side of the garden, along the terrace by the river, and then on the return were "a few shouts of Vive le roi! many for Vive la nation! Vivent les sans-culottes! Down with the king! Down with the veto! Down with the old porker! etc .-- But I can certify that these insults were all uttered between the Pont-Turnant and the parterre, and by about a dozen men, among which were five or six gunners following the king, the same as flies follow an animal they are bent on tormenting."] [Footnote 2679: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.

223, 273--Letter of Bonnaud, chief of the Sainte-Marguerite battalion: "I cannot avoid marching at their head under any pretext...

Never will I violate the Constitution unless I am forced to."-- The Gravilliers section and that of the Faubourg Poissonniere cashiered their officers and elected others.] [Footnote 2680: Mortimer-Ternaux, IV.342.Speech of Fabre d'Eglantine at the Jacobin Club, Nov.