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the 2d of October, received a deputation from the national guard, 

 come to thank her for her gift of flags. She said to them, "I am 

 very glad to have given flags to the national guard of Versailles. 

 The nation and the army should be attached to the king as we 

 are ourselves to them. I was enchanted with Thursday," — the 

 day of the banquet. 1 



The news of the banquet reached Paris on the following day, 

 and the alarm spread rapidly. There was no longer any doubt 

 of the reality of the plots which, for some time, the pamphlets 

 and journals had been attributing to the court, the ministers, and 

 the majority of the assembly. La Chroniquc dc Paris denounced 

 the plot of the aristocrats on the 4th. Marat condemned "the 

 orgy of Versailles in burning terms, and closed by a veritable 

 call to arms." 2 The agitation increased in all quarters of the 

 city. Wherever a man appeared wearing a white or black cock- 

 ade he was attacked and his emblem torn from him, and he him- 

 self arrested or threatened. 3 The districts assembled and sent 

 deputations to the commune to demand that it take necessary 

 measures. The city officers were alarmed "at the outrage against 

 the nation and the commune, committed by persons who have 

 allowed themselves to abjure and discard a cockade which has 

 been adopted as a symbol of union and of liberty." The com- 

 manders of the battalions were ordered to remain under arms, 

 and a decree was passed forbidding individuals to wear any other 

 than red, blue, and white, the national colors. 4 



At the Cordeliers, Danton secured a decree to send a deputa- 

 tion to the commune to urge that the "commanding general go 

 to Versailles the next day to ask, in the name of all the citizens 

 of Paris, that the troops be sent away immediately," etc., etc. 



1 Deux amis de la liberte, Histoire de la revolution de France, III, 136. 



2 Revue historique, LXVIII, 291. Mathiez quotes " selon le mot de Des- 

 moulins;" " Tous les bous citoyens doivent s' assembler en armes, envoyer 

 un nombreux detachement pour enlever toutes les poudres d'Essonne; 

 chaque district doit retirer ses canons de l'hotel de ville." 



s Deux amis de la liberte, Histoire de la revolution de France^ III, 149, 

 150. 



4 Deux amis de la liberte, Histoire de la revolution de France, III, 150. 



& Revue historique, LXVIII, 292. Mathiez. quotes from the Courrier de 

 Versailles. 



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