The Uprising of June 20, ly^s 25 



realizing that it was useless to urge him further, resigned, three 

 days after the Girondins had fallen. Much to his surprise — for 

 he seems to have helieved himself indispensable — his resignation 

 was accepted.-^ His was a short and an inglorious ministry. 



It was clear now that the king, who was a past-master in 

 deception, had used Dumouriez only to get rid of Roland. But 

 even this injustice brought little sympathy or regret for the fallen 

 minister as he was generally regarded as an adventurer and an 

 intriguer and it was even said that he was a traitor.-^ 



IV 



The Feuillant Ministry 



The king, in a last efifort to carry out his anti-revolutionary 

 policy, chose a new ministry, the third in as many months. The 

 letter announcing the appointment was read to the assembly on 

 June 18, but these ministerial changes were so common that the 

 assembly paid little heed to it. Of the old ministry Duranthon 

 and Lacoste were retained, Chambonas was made minister of 

 foreign affairs, Lajard of war, Terrier de Montciel of the inte- 

 rior, and Beaulieu of finance. The new ministry represented the 

 Feuillant element in the assembly and was dominated by 

 Lafayette.^ 



An event now occurred which stirred France to its depths and 

 turned all eyes toward Lafayette.^ That general brought himself 

 effectually before the public by writing a threatening letter to the 

 assembly, dated June 16, 1792, from his camp at Maubeuge. 

 The letter has been called " the manifesto of the constitutional 

 party as Roland's letter was of the Jacobins."^ It was a most 



^ Ibid., II, 295-300; Morris, Diary and Letters, I, 544, Morris to Jeffer- 

 son, June 17, 1792. 



^"Oelsner in Revue historique, LXXXIII, 310; Lindet Correspondance, 

 356; Chaumette, Memoires, 9. 



' Chambonas was Lafayette's cousin and Lajard was one of his creatures. 

 Revolutions de Paris, XII, 522. 



' Nouvelle correspondance politique, XII, i. 



'Ternaux, I, 128. 



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