[Footnote 161: "The better part of the Assembly," writes Ferrières, "strangers to all the intrigues which might be going forward, was filled with alarm at the sad reports that were circulating, and terrified at the designs of the court, which they were assured went to the seizing of Paris, the dissolution of the Assembly, and the massacre of the citizens. In the mean time the partisans of the court concealed their joy under an appearance of indifference. They came to the sittings to see what turns the deliberations would take, to enjoy their triumph, and the humiliation of the Assembly. The Assembly they looked upon as annihilated."] [Footnote 162: Michelet, vol. i., p. 38; Geo. Long, Esq., vol. i., p. 28.] [Footnote 163: "This heroic man was the Abbé Lefebvre d'Ormesson. No man rendered a greater service to the Revolution and the city of Paris."--_Michelet_, vol. i., p. 140. "A patriot, in liquor, insisted on sitting to smoke on the edge of one of the powder-barrels. There smoked he, independent of the world, till the Abbé purchased his pipe for three francs, and pitched it far."--_Carlyle_, vol. i., p. 191.] [Footnote 164: Louis Blanc, Histoire de la Revolution Française, vol. ii., p. 365.] [Footnote 165: Michelet, vol. i., p. 156.] [Footnote 166: Histoire des Montagnards, par Alphonse Esquiros, p. 16.] [Footnote 167: M. Rabaud de St. Etienne, vol. i., p. 66.] [Footnote 168: "Its walls, ten feet thick at the top of its towers, and thirty or forty at the base, might long laugh at cannon-balls. Its batteries, firing down upon Paris, could in the mean time demolish the whole of the Marais and the Faubourg St. Antoine. Its towers pierced with windows and loop-holes, protected by double and triple gratings, enabled the garrison in full security to make a dreadful carnage of its assailants."--_Michelet_, vol. i., p. 143.] [Footnote 169: Thiers, vol. i., p. 69.] [Footnote 170: "Old men," says Michelet, "who have had the happiness and the misery to see all that has happened in this unprecedented half century, declared that the grand and national achievements of the Republic and the Empire had, nevertheless, a partial non-unanimous character. But that the 14th of July alone was the day of the whole people."--_Michelet_, vol. i., p. 144.] [Footnote 171: Histoire Des Montagnards par Alphonse Esquiros, p. 17.] [Footnote 172: Michelet, vol. i., p. 156.] [Footnote 173: "Properly speaking the Bastille was not taken, it surrendered. Troubled by a bad conscience, it went mad, and lost all presence of mind."--_Michelet_, vol. i., p. 156.] CHAPTER XIV. THE KING RECOGNIZES THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.