The Uprising of June 20, Tj<j2 35 



eveninj^of June 19, speaking in the church Enfants-Trouvees from 

 about 9:30 to 12:30 o'clock, but there is no evidence that he tried 

 to give the movement a revokitionary character.'* He made an 

 effort to have a decree passed in the section Quinze-Vingts to the 

 effect that they should present their petition to the king and to 

 the assembly unarmed." He asserts that he succeeded but that 

 the emissaries of the faction induced the people to arm themselves 

 after he left.'" 



As to Robespierre, his plan was to reserve all action for a 

 decisive blow. He spoke much at the Jacobins to this effect. On 

 June 13 he said, speaking of saving the country, that "it would 

 not be done by partial insurrections, which only weaken the public 

 cause. "^^ The same sentiment was expressed by Camille Des- 

 moulins, who said in the Jacobin club on June 19, " Without doubt 

 I regard insurrection as indispensable, but let us above all things 

 guard against partial insurrections."^® 



Danton, also, has been accused of causing this uprising, but 

 there is no proof of this assertion,^^ While it is true that the 

 debates in the Jacobin club were menacing in tone, expressing 

 feelings out of which the 20th of June might have grown, and 

 while it is also true that Danton, Robespierre, Camille Desmoulins 

 and Lasource spoke vigorously — facts which may have given rise 

 to statements that these men were the leaders — there is nothing 

 in their speeches that can directly connect them with instigating 

 the uprising.-^'' Danton, on June 13, declared that he would 



^* Ibid., 40-41; Nouvelle correspondance politique, XII, 2, June 22, 1792. 

 This article is reprinted in a pamphlet of the time, Le cri de douleur; 

 Journal royalist No. 4, June 22, 1792; Correspondance politique, LXIII, 2. 



" " Proces-verVjal de la seance du 19 juin de la section des Quinze- 

 Vingts" in Journal des debats et decrets. No. 273, p. 359; Histoire parle- 

 mentaire, XXX, 40. 



"Ibid., XXX, 40-41. 



" Aulard, Societe des Jacobins, III, 698. 



"Ibid., IV, 20. 



" Ternaux, I, 313; Robiquet, Le personnel municipal de Paris, 482-83; 

 Aulard, Etudes et lemons, 4. serie, 192. 



"^ Ibid., Societe des Jacobins, III, 688-706; IV, 1-21. 



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