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to write from his hiding place and filled his journal with invec- 

 tives and threats of vengeance against those whom he accused of 

 uniting with the court.'' In the Jacobin club, there were heated 

 discussions upon the insolence of the Austrians, the dissolution 

 of the guard, the suspected generals, and the traitorous priests.* 

 In the council there were stormy scenes between Dumouriez and 

 the three Girondist ministers, Roland, Servan, and Claviere.^ 



The public was impatiently awaiting the sanction of the 

 decrees and the king's delay but confirmed the suspicions that 

 were abroad concerning his bad faith. The decree against the 

 priests had been in his hands since June 2 and its sanction was 

 awaited even more impatiently than the sanction of the others.*' 

 The restlessness was increased by an event of June 3, the proces- 

 sion of the Fctc-dieu, on which occasion there had been much 

 disorder caused by acts of violence and by insults addressed to 

 ofificers by priests.' The newspapers by their reports and com- 

 ments increased this unrest and the people of the faubourgs were 

 becoming ever more irritated and threatened an uprising.^ 



While Paris was thus full of disorders and scandals, Dumou- 

 riez urged the king to sanction the decrees, assuring him that 

 without the aid of force he could not hope to override the sus- 

 picions of the greater part of the nation, nor the rage of the 

 Jacobins, nor the politics of the republican party." But the king 

 asked for time to reflect. 



This state of afifairs could not last. Someone must act. The 



^Ternaux, I, 118. 



^Aulard, Socictc dcs Jacobins, III, 590-697; Lescure, Correspoiidance 

 secrete, 601-03, lettre 20. 



^ Memoires de Dumouriez, II, 269-71; Mcmoircs de Madame Roland. I, 

 386. 



* Moniteur, XII, 560. 



'' Histoire parlemeiitairc, XIV, 424, contains the text of the municipal 

 decree of June i against this procession; Rcz'olutions de Paris, XII, 

 492-94, gives a description of the procession. 



^Histoire parlemeutaire, XIV, 425, gives extracts from Brissot's Patriate 

 frangais, June 4, and from Lc tribune des patriotes. No. Ill, of Camille 

 Desmoulins. 



' Memoires de Dumouriez, II, 269-73; Lescure, Correspoiidance secrete, 

 lettre 20. 



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