114 Jeanette Needham. 
Jallet,8 the number of men ordered to the capital was sixteen 
thousand, but Boullé reported on June 28 that the number was 
more than twenty thousand. He adds that their headquarters 
were to be established at Saint-Cloud and a full train of artillery 
was to be brought from Flanders. All communication with 
Paris was to be broken off. With such a force at hand, the 
intimidation of the national assembly would become a possi- 
bility. 
In fact, rumors of a ministerial scheme to seize leading deputies 
were rife. Fear of such an attempt led the national assembly 
to adopt, on June 23, Mirabeau’s motion declaring the persons 
of the deputies inviolable. Jallet had heard that, in the council — 
held the evening of the royal session, violence against the deputies 
was advocated. The leading members were to be abducted and 
killed, the rest dispersed. He referred to another scheme for 
stationing two soldiers at the door of each deputy to prevent 
meetings. Reports were current that apartments had been 
prepared at the Bastille and at Vincennes to receive them, 
should the deputies be arrested. Biauzat wrote the night of 
June 25 that it had been proposed in a council of that evening to 
arrest some of the deputies to hold them as hostages, as it were, 
for what might occur in the provinces. He adds that he was 
warned at midnight that he had been honored by being included 
in the list. His colleague, M. Andrieu, had jested with him 
about it and he himself was going to bed without fear. Not. 
that he wished to be lodged in the Bastille, but he did not believe 
that the intriguers would dare make an attack upon the liberty 
of the deputies. The next day, other deputies inquired whether 
he had not been informed that plots were being formed against 
the deputies, but he did not reveal what he had learned the 
previous midnight.!° 
8 Jallet, 106. 
® Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIV, 26. 
10 Biauzat, 1], 141, 146; Jallet, 108-109; Hardy, Journal de mes loisirs: 
“Le bruit courait que l’intention de la cour était de faire arréter un député © 
par chaque bailliage pour les retenir en 6tages dans l’intérieur du chateau de 
la Bastille, of l’on avait vu arriver un grand nombre de lits et une grande 
quantité de matelas.’’ Quoted in footnote, Biauzat, II], 141. Staél-Holstein 
(105) wrote on July 9: ‘Il est certain que peu aprés la séance royale le 
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