The Uprising of June 20, ijcjs 43 



filled, to double the guards at the Tuileries and at the national 

 assembly, to have at his disposal reserves of infantry and cavalry 

 and to take every measure to maintain order.^'^ He also wrote to 

 the commissioners of police instructing them to keep the peace.*^ 

 lie then summoned the commandants of the two faubourgs to 

 come to the mayoralty at nine o'clock in the evening.''^ It also 

 appears that some time before the evening of the 19th he had 

 written a letter to the president of the section Quinze-Vingts, 

 asking that the citizens do not go armed to the assembly nor to 

 the king."''^ 



Meantime the minister of the interior, Terrier de Montciel,'"*^ 

 had heard alarming reports concerning the tranquillity of Paris 

 and wrote to the directory at 2 :30 o'clock asking to be kept in- 

 formed of the situation so that he might at once render an account 

 to the king/'^ The directory received this letter of inquiry while 

 it was deliberating and responded at once with a copy of its de- 

 cree and asked Terrier to communicate it to the national assem- 

 bly.'* Ever since the letter of Lafayette to the assembly had 



du flepartement par MM. Garnier, Leveillard et Demantort," Revue ret- 

 rospective, 2. serie, I, 241. 



" " Rapport que fait M. de Romainvilliers " ; " Rapport de Roederer," 

 Ifistoire parlementaire, XV, 424. Ternaux states (I, 141, note) that he has 

 found the minutes of this letter and that it adds at the end the mayor's 

 authorization to make requisition for regular troops if they are needed 

 by the commandant. 



** Letter of Petion to Dumont, commissioner of police, Section Mon- 

 treuil, June 19, 1792; "Rapport fait au conseil du department par MM. 

 Garnier, Leveillard et Demantort"; " Conduite tenue par M. le maire." 



""Rapport d'Alexandre," Ternaux, I, 407; "Rapport fait au conseil de 

 department par MM. Garnier, Leveillard et Demantort"; "Conduite tenue 

 par M. le maire." 



"'Journal des debats et decrets. No. 273, p. 360. This gives, in the report 

 of the proceedings of the assembly for June 25, a proces-verbal of the 

 section Quinze-Vingts for June 19, evening session. 



'■' Terrier unlike Petion was out of sympathy with republican doctrines. 

 He l)elonged to the party of Lameth and Duport. Glagau, 339, Mercy to 

 Kaunitz, June 27, 1792. 



■'''' Rapport du ministre de I'interieur, i, letter of Terrier to the direc- 

 tory, June 19, 1792, 2:30 o'clock. 



'^ Ibid., Letter of the directory to Terrier, June 19, 1792. 



