Neither the King nor the Assembly have consented to restore it to them, while they can no longer leave it suspended in the air, or defer it until a better opportunity, and keep their Jacobin acolytes waiting.
The feeble leash restraining the revolutionary dog breaks in their hands; the dog is free and in the street III .-- The Girondins have worked for the benefit of the Jacobins.
The armed force sent away or disorganized .-- The Federates summoned .-- Brest and Marseilles send men .-- Public sessions of administrative bodies .-- Permanence of administrative bodies and of the sections .-- --Effect of these two measures .-- The central bureau of the Hotel-de-ville .-- Origin and formation of the revolutionary Commune.
Never was better work done for another.

Every measure relied on by them for getting power back, serves only to place it in the hands of the mob .-- On the one hand, through a series of legislative acts and municipal ordinances, they have set aside or disbanded the army, alone capable of repressing or intimidating it.

On the 29th of May they dismissed the king's guard.

On the 15th of July they ordered away from Paris all regular troops.

On the 16th of July,[2626] they select "for the formation of a body of infantry-gendarmerie, the former French-guardsmen who served in the Revolution about the epoch of the 1st day of June, 1789, the officers, under-officers, gunners, and soldiers who gathered around the flag of liberty after the 12th of July of that year," that is to say, a body of recognized insurgents and deserters.