[84] The letter will be found in M. Etienne Charavay’s _Assemblée Electorale_, p. 437. [85] I quote from M. Aulard, _Rev. Française_, March 14, 1893. [86] Note that Lafayette in his Memoirs (vol. iii. p. 64) talks of Danton “at the head of his battalion.” I doubt an error on the part of a soldier whose business it was to know his own command. [87] _e.g._ that of the quarter of the Carmelites (ibid.). [88] _Révolutions de France et Brabant_, No. 74. [89] See his Collected Works, vol. xii. pp. 264, 265. [90] M. Aulard points out an error in Condorcet’s own note (xii. p. 267), where it is mentioned as the 12th of July; but the _Bouche de Fer_ of the 10th gives us the above date over these two speeches. [91] He wrote a funny little letter (among other things) to the _Républicain_ of July 16, describing a “mechanical king,” “who is practically eternal.” [92] See _Société des Jacobins_, vol. ii. p. 541. [93] _Moniteur_, July 16, 1791. [94] _Ami du Peuple_, June 22, 1791. [95] _Révolutions de France et de Brabant_, No. 82. [96] This is not a rhetorical exaggeration. It indicates, as will be seen later in the chapter, the very number that finally formed the garrison of the palace—a point not hitherto noticed, and well worth remembering, for it shows how Lafayette’s accusations are half the truth. He had approached Danton, and he had told him many of his plans. Danton had not acceded, but he used the knowledge. [97] _Révolutions de France et de Brabant_, No. 82. [98] Appendix II. [99] On June 24. [100] I follow Aulard in this as to the general scheme, and largely as to authorities also. [101] Aulard is my authority for the fact that the actual text of this second petition disappeared in 1871, when the Hotel de Ville was burnt by the Commune, but that Berchez saw it before that event, and carefully drew up a list of the principal names. Danton is not among them. [102] The _Courrier Français_ of July 22 asks if “the man in holland trousers and a grey waistcoat was Danton,” but says nothing more. [103] See the letter published in the _Rev. Française_, April 1893, p. 325. [104] _Orateur du Peuple_, viii. No. 16. Not over-trustworthy. [105] Possibly later. Beugnot seems to speak as though Danton was still in Troyes on at least as late a date as the 6th of August (_Mémoires_, i. pp. 249-250). [106] Since writing the above I notice that M. Aulard in the same article quotes a remark of Danton’s in the Electoral Assembly of September 10th. This is taken from the _procès verbal_ of the Assembly, and M. Charavay communicated it to M. Aulard. [107] His election was not declared till the 7th, but was known on the 6th. [108] January 20, 1792. [109] I see in that phrase all Danton’s attitude upon the war. [110] There was a minority of seven. [111] Perhaps as early as the evening of the 28th. [112] This account is translated from the _Moniteur_, August 3, 1792. [113] _Journal des Débats_, 183.