The Uprising of June 20, ijg2 107 



Thuriot said, "I am far from believing that the king can be in 

 danger in the midst of the people, but if the assembly desires 

 a deputation to be sent to him, I willingly consent to its nomina- 

 tion." Whereupon Beugnot replied, " It is not, as M. Thuriot has 

 said, the people who are with the king — these are brigands.""*^ 

 After another angry retort by Thuriot, the assembly closed the 

 discussion. ^^° It now became a question of the size of the depu- 

 tation. Some one asked that it be composed of sixty members, 

 but it was pointed out that if sixty members were sent away 

 there would not be a quorum left and Cambon said he thought the 

 assembly should remain in permanent session. Thuriot, still 

 burning wath anger, demanded that any member who calumniated 

 the people should be called to order, and Brunck cried out that 

 only a factionist could see the people in these brigands. The 

 assembly voted a deputation of twenty-four members, the presi- 

 dent, M. Girardin, named them and they at once set out.-°^ 



Scarcely had the deputation left the assembly hall when 

 Dumas, who had been at the Tuileries, entered and reported what 

 he had seen. He asked to be heard upon a question which con- 

 cerned the public peace, the honor of the national assembly and 

 the safety of the hereditary representative of the French people. 

 He said he believed it necessary to give some executive power 

 to the deputies by which they might secure the liberty and safety 

 of the king, adding, " We have seen the king in imminent danger."' 

 This brought forth murmurs and protests, Charlier crying, " The 

 king is in the midst of the French people;, he cannot be in any 

 danger," and some one retorted, " The people of Paris are not 

 the French people." Dumas, still trying to speak above all this 

 tumult, demanded to be heard in silence. He continued amidst 



^^'^ Journal de I'assemhlee nationale, XXI, 329; Journal des debats et 

 decrets, No. 268, p. 277; Annates patriotiques et litteraires de la France, 

 CLXXIV, 763. 



'^ Reports do not agree on what Thuriot said. 



^^^ Journal de I'assemblee nationale, XXI, 330; Journal des debats et 

 decrets, No. 268, p. 278; Annates patriotiques et litteraires de la France, 

 CLXXIV, 763; Moniteur, XII, 718. The Monitciir is very brief here, 

 stating only the fact that the deputation was sent when the king was re- 

 ported in danger. 



