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"engage to carry terror into a perverse court" but on the 14th 

 in pronouncing a withering discourse upon this court he explained 

 that the means he would use were twofold ; first, to levy a tax on 

 the rich and second, to send Marie Antoinette back to Austria.-^ 

 On June 18, he delivered another bitter discourse against Lafayette 

 demanding that he be called to account before the bar of the 

 assembly for the letter he had written to it.-- But none of these 

 addresses refer in any way to the uprising of June 20. It has been 

 more justly stated that he kept himself apart and permitted the 

 uprising and did not regret that Louis XVI was so forcibly 

 warned by the people, but that he wished to avoid bloodshed. 

 Ilis dream was of a peaceful revolution.-^ 



The ostensible leaders of the uprising were of a different type. 

 Chief among them were Santerre and Alexandre, commandants of 

 the battalions Enfants-Trouvees and Saint Marcel, men of con- 

 siderable standing and influence in the faubourgs. Of less promi- 

 nence were the marquis Saint Iluruge and the Pole Lazowsky, 

 captain of cannoneers in the faubourg Saint Marcel. There were 

 others who stirred the people up, such as Fournier, known as the 

 "American," an elector of the department of Paris of 1791, 

 Rotonde the Italian, Legendre the butcher from the faubourg 

 Saint German and one Curiette ^^errieres. Besides these, there 

 were a small number of confederates of the faubourg Saint- 

 Antoiiie. such as Rossignol. the future general, then a journeyman 

 goldsmith, Nicolas, a sapper of the battalion Enfants-Trouvees, 

 Brierre, a wine merchant, Conor, calling himself victor of the 

 Bastille and others.-* 



Alexandre has been referred to as the man who played the 

 major role on June 20 and who was almost master of Paris in 



"/fr.U, III, 6()9-;o3. 



==/^.■(/.. IV, II. 



^ Ibid., Etudes ct IcQons, 4. serie, 192. 



" " Declaration de Lareynie." This declaration was received among 

 others by the justice of the peace of the section Roi de Sicile, Tune 24, 

 1792. It is not first-hand evidence. The author states that he learned 

 these things through correspondence and information from tlie faubourgs 

 during the week before Tune 20th. 



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