io6 Laura B. Pfciffer 



Gonpillean, a Jacobin member of the assembly, relates an 

 altercation that he had at this point with several members of the 

 Right. These gentlemen complained of the people for reducing 

 the king to such a humiliating situation. Goupilleau answered 

 that the fault lay with the evil councillors of the king, who had 

 prevented him from hearing the truth and that they had been 

 supported by the Right. Whereupon the members from the 

 Right said, " Only Jacobins speak thus," and Goupilleau retorted 

 that he was proud to be a Jacobin and placed his Jacobin card in 

 his buttonhole.-''^ 



We have seen that the assembly adjourned immediately after 

 the procession had left the hall at about half past three o'clock. 

 The members, anxious about the situation, gradually returned 

 to the hall and at about five o'clock a quorum had assembled and 

 they were called to order.-''*' It was reported by a member that 

 the life of the king was in danger. " I ask," he cried, " that the 

 assembly go in a body to save him."-''' Hebert requested that a 

 deputation of twenty-four members be sent at once to the king, 

 but this motion provoked murmurs from one side.-*^ Then 



laire de Saint-Vincent dc Nantes; Isnard's exact words are taken from 

 Fontaine, but in his report to the assembly the same evening, Isnard re- 

 peated the substance of Fontaine's words as the address he made to the 

 crowd. Journal de I'assemblee nationale, XXI, 338; Journal dcs debats et 

 decrets, No. 268, p. 283; Monitenr, XII, 723. The cries of the crowd are 

 rieported in Gosse, Fontaine and Oclsner. Isnard says that after his speech 

 the crowd became more calm. 



'*^ Letter of Goupilleau as above. 



^^^ Journal dcs debats et decrets. No. 268, p. 27, says the meeting was 

 called to order by Guyton-Morveau and that Girardin took the chair a 

 little later. Proccs-verbal dc I'assemblee nationale also states that M. 

 Guyton, as ex-president, was in the chair. The Journal de I'assemblee 

 nationale (XXI, 329), and the Monitenr (XII, 718), speak only of Gi- 

 rardin occupying the chair. Chronique du mots, June 20, 1792, also gives 

 the hour as five o'clock. 



-''Journal dcs debats et decrets gives the name of this member as 

 Regnault-Beaucaron, as does also Annates patriotiques et Htteraires de la 

 France, CLXXIV, 763. The Monitenr and the Journal de rassemblce 

 nationale give no name. 



-'^ Journal de I'assemblee nationale, XXI. 329; Annals patriotiques et 

 Htteraires de la France, No. CLXXIV, 763. 



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