"Triple nom de Dieu!" exclaims one of them, "I didn't come a hundred and eighty leagues to restrain myself from sticking a hundred and eighty heads on the end of my pike!"[3180] Accordingly, they form in themselves a special, permanent, resident body, allowing no one to divert them from their adopted occupation.

"They turn a deaf ear to the excitements of spurious patriotism";[3181] they are not going to be sent off to the frontier.

Their post is at the capital; they have sworn "to defend liberty"; neither before nor after September make them deviate from this end.

When, after having drawn money on every treasury and under every pretext, they at last consent to leave Paris, it is only on the condition that they return to Marseilles.

Their operations are limited to the interior of France, and only against political adversaries.