1 8 Julia Crewitt Stoddard 



and annihilate .them, and will end by demanding the ancient 

 regime." 1 



Other publications did even more than Loustalot's to intensify 

 suspicions and excite the people to violence. One of the most 

 incendiary contains the following appeal : "Parisians, open ! 

 open at last your eyes ! Rise ! rise from your lethargy ! The 

 aristocrats surround you on all sides. They wish to put you in 

 fetters, and you sleep ! If you do not make haste to destroy 

 them you will be a prey to servitude, to misery, to desolation ! 

 Wake ! Rouse yourselves !" 2 



Another, a pamphlet not less potent to move to revolt, was 

 called "When shall we have bread?" and this distressing cry is 

 repeated as a refrain after every paragraph. "Why, citizens, do 

 Lafayette, Bailly, and the leaders of the commune allow you to 

 lack bread ? Is it to grow fat on your substance ? Why do these 

 infamous rascals bring troops to surround Paris, Versailles, and 

 the neighborhood with pikes and soldiers under pretext of guard- 

 ing the king and the national assembly? These scoundrels be- 

 lieve that you have too much to eat. That is why they send for 

 troops to consume what there is very quickly, and then to stran- 

 gle you. And you sleep! When shall we have bread? In the 

 midst of abundance we have no bread!" 3 



Such appeals did not go unheeded. There .were many proph- 

 ecies of a second revolution. Jefferson in a letter dated the 

 18th of September says : "The danger of famine here has not 

 ceased with a plentiful harvest. A new and unskilful adminis- 

 tration has not yet got into the way of bringing regular supplies 

 to the capital. We are in danger of hourly insurrection for want 

 of bread." 4 Capello, the Venetian ambassador, on the 14th of 

 September, asserts most positively that the "present revolution 

 necessitates another revolution," which can not be very far off, 

 whether sooner or later "will depend on the impulse of circum- 



1 Revolutions de Paris, No. XII, 29. 



? Revue historique LXVIII, 267, quotation from Le Fouet national, les 

 pourquoi du mois de septembre. 



s Revue historique, LXVIII, 266, 267. 



4 Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, III, 35. 



284 



