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wish of the nation strongly expressed" could alone restrain the 

 enemies of the constitution should not be overlooked. A month 

 later he spoke of the October insurrection in these terms : "Paris 

 believed it her duty to save the public liberty a second time," 1 

 and this, says Mathiez, was the opinion of all patriots. As Lous- 

 talot said a "second access of revolution was necessary." 2 



After the regiment of Flanders had been called to Versailles 

 the popular leaders were all agreed on the necessity of forcing 

 the king to establish himself in Paris. 3 The newspapers were 

 full of demands for energetic measures. The following appeared 

 in the Revolutions de Paris, September 20: "We ought not to 

 expect to obtain a constitution for the nation from the minis- 

 terial party in the assembly, i. e., from the nobles, clergy, and 

 deputies who have feudal properties, or who aspire to court fa- 

 vors. They would make a constitution for the court. What 

 then shall we do? Give up hope, or go to Versailles and tear 

 from the assembly the traitors to their country?" 4 In the next 

 number occurs the much quoted expression on the necessity for 

 a new "access of revolution." 



La Chronique de Paris of the 25th of September proposed to 

 "invite the king and queen to come and pass the winter in Paris," 

 and expressed the wish that the "assembly, too, might come to 

 sit in the Louvre." 5 Marat, in L'ami du Peuple, demanded more 

 energetic measures : "Convinced that the national assembly can 

 no longer do anything for the welfare of the nation whose de- 

 crees have been abandoned in a cowardly manner, and whose 

 rights have been sacrificed (unless by retracing its steps, it re- 

 forms its dark decrees), I believe it can not be too soon dis- 

 solved." 6 



It was felt that neither the king nor the assembly seriously 

 desired the 4th of August decrees, and that all hopes of the revo- 



1 Revue historique, LXVIII, 273. 



2 Revolutions de Paris, No. XII, 31. 



3 Revue historique, LXVIII, 265, 269. 



* Revolutions de Paris, No. XI, 14. 



8 Revue historique, LXVIII, 265. 



6 Marat, L'ami du peuple, No. 17, pp. 65, 66. 



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