This day had been selected by the Catholics for a great demonstration.

Towards ten o'clock in the morning, some companies wearing the red tuft, under pretext of going to mass, marched through the city armed and uttering threats.

The few dragoons, on the other hand, who were on guard at the palace, had not even a sentinel posted, and had only five muskets in the guard-house.

At two o'clock P.M.there was a meeting held in the Jacobin church, consisting almost exclusively of militia wearing the red tuft.

The mayor pronounced a panegyric on those who wore it, and was followed by Pierre Froment, who explained his mission in much the same words as those quoted above.