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boon made public, thoro had boon a fooling' of iiiirost and foar at 

 the Tuilorios which had grcnvn with each new^ report and now 

 bordered on terror, '.riie king" had made his will, had gone to con- 

 fessic>n and it was said that the members of the royal family had 

 given gifts as last souvenirs to their personal friends. It was 

 also reported that a week before, the king had said, " T km^tw the 

 dark projects they have against me; T shall be at Saint-Denis 

 within a fortnight providing that tho\- will allow my body to lie 

 beside those of my ancestors."^* It was furthermore believed 

 that the king was preparing to leave Paris. On June i8, Petion 

 received a letter from Bayonne, without signature and without 

 date, that informed him that the king was going to leave Paris 

 at two o'clock in the morning. Petion summoned the command- 

 ant to suspend all other business and come to him without delay 

 as he had need of a conference with him on this matter.^^ This 

 feeling at the Tuileries was an incentive to Terrier to keep in- 

 formed upon the situation. He showed the greatest solicitude for 

 the royal family from this moment on. 



The assembly held a session on this same evening, June 19, 

 which was full of interest because of two occurrences, the read- 

 ing of the petition of the Marseillais and of the decree of the 

 directory. A deputation of citizens from Marseilles was intro- 

 duced at the bar of the assembly and announced that the liberty 

 of France was in danger and that the free men of the south were 

 ready to march to its defense. They continued : 



■■ The day of the people'* anger has arrived. The people they have 

 tried to kill and chain down is weary of defending itself and now is ready 

 to take the offensive; weary of baffling conspiracies . . . the generous lion, 



"Aulard, Socicte dis Jocobins, IV, 9; Corresf'omiauce entre le comic 

 de Mirabeau et le comte de La Marck, III, 318. Montmorin to La Marck, 

 June 19, 1792; "Rapport de police, Observations de 19 juin." Soltho 

 Douglas, Archives Nationales, W/b 251 ; " Rapport de police," Tune 20, 

 1792, Archives Nationales, 4387; Atmales pairiotiqucs. No. CLXXII, p. 

 757; Journal royalist. No. 5, p. 4; Lcitrc de Blattc-Gilli. depute de Fasscm- 

 blee nationale, June 21, 1792; Paroy, Mcntoircs. 207: L'indicateur. No. 34, 

 June 22. 1792. 



"Letter of Petion to Romainvilliers, June 18, 1702, Archives Nationales 

 F'4474"'. The letter from Bayonne was enclosed. 



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