44 Jeanette Needham. 
officer of the body guard, and Coster adds that another man was 
suffocated.” 
That the riot did not lead to a clash with the troops doubtless 
was due to the disaffection among the latter, who were more 
or less in sympathy with the crowd. Baron de Saiffert observed 
that the troops lacked decision in their attitude toward the 
crowd and he criticized them for not quelling the uproar, instead 
of merely stopping the throwing of stones.** It was current 
rumor in Paris that the guards took no action against the people, 
except to laugh at them.** The French Guards declared that 
they would have turned their bayonets against the body guards, 
had the latter clashed with the people.* Evidently, the danger 
of that was not great, to judge from the later conduct of the 
body guards, who complained because they were obliged to act 
as patrols, when their particular service was to guard the person 
of the king.* 
The demonstration produced the desired effect upon the 
Archbishop of Paris. He was so terrified by his experiences 
that he promised to join the national assembly the next day, 
it is stated, although his promise was not executed until two days 
later. The crowd is said to have demanded, evidently as a 
guarantee of his good intentions, that he send his credentials at 
once to the committee of verification of the national assembly.*” 
The evidence indicates that he complied with the request im- 
mediately. Boullé states that, before the uproar had abated, 
the frightened archbishop sent an order to the Archbishop of 
Bordeaux authorizing his friend to submit his credentials to the 
committee which met that evening at the latter’s apartments. 
82 Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la révolution, XIII, 75; Coster, Récit, 
340; Jallet, 103. 
33 Saiffert, Revue de ta révolution, VII, 71. 
34 Buuietins d’un agent secret, La révolution frangaise, XXIV, 70. 
35 Jallet, 106. 
36 Duquesnoy, I; Salmour, in Flammermont, Correspondances diplomatiques 
des agents élrangers, 231. 
37 Lettre d'un membre de l’assemblée nationale, 43. This man says that he 
strolled past Notre Dame to see the crowd at close range and found them 
very well satisfied with their action, the archbishop having assured them 
that he would join the assembly the next day. 
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