Lafayette was very near being killed in the morning; but the pistol failed to go off at his breast.

The assassin was immediately secured, but he arranged to be let free" (Gouverneur Morris, letter of July 20, 1791).

Likewise, on the 29th of August, 1792, at Rouen, the national guard, defending the Hotel-de-ville, is pelted with stones more than an hour while many are wounded.

The magistrates make every concession and try every expedient, the mayor reading the riot act five or six times.

Finally the national guard, forced into it, exclaim: "If you do not allow us to repel force with force we shall leave." They fire and four persons are killed and two wounded, and the crowd breaks up.