[Footnote 182: The Parliamentary History, vol. ii., p. 130, records that 100 deputies accompanied the king; Thiers states 200; Louis Blanc, 240; Michelet, 300 or 400. M. Rabaud de St. Etienne, a member of the Assembly, says that the whole body of the deputies accompanied the king; and M. Ant. Fantin Desodoards, an eye-witness, writes, "L'Assemblée National, entière l'accompagnait à pied dans son costume de ceremonie," vol. i., p. 34. The probability is that 100 were chosen, but all went.] [Footnote 183: Michelet, vol. i., p. 173.] [Footnote 184: Histoire de la Revolution Française, par Louis Blanc, vol. ii., p. 420.] [Footnote 185: Madame Campan, Memoirs, etc., ii., 59.] [Footnote 186: Michelet, 186.] [Footnote 187: Michelet, 175.] [Footnote 188: "He was saved only by a deputation of the Assembly, who showed themselves admirable for courage and humanity, risked their lives, and preserved the man only after having begged him of the people on their knees."--_Michelet_, p. 186.] [Footnote 189: Bertrand de Moleville testifies that this was an habitual expression in the mouth of Foulon.--_Annals_, vol. i., p. 347.] [Footnote 190: "The old man (Foulon) believed, by such bravado, to please the young military party, and recommend himself for the day he saw approaching, when the court, wanting to strike some desperate blow, would look out for a hardened villain."--_Michelet_, vol. ii., p. 10.] [Footnote 191: Beaulieu's Memoirs, vol. ii., p. 10.] [Footnote 192: "Foulon had a son-in-law after his own heart--Berthier, the intendant of Paris, a shrewd but hard-hearted man, and unscrupulous, as confessed by the Royalists. A libertine at the age of fifty, in spite of his numerous family, he purchased on all sides, so it was said, little girls twelve years of age. He knew well that he was detested by the Parisians, and was but too happy to find an opportunity of making war upon them."--_Michelet_, p. 184.] [Footnote 193: An appeal to the then existing courts would have secured the trial of Foulon by his own colleagues and accomplices, the ancient magistrates, the only judges then empowered to act. This was evident to all. See Michelet, p. 187.] [Footnote 194: Deux Amis de la Liberté, vol. ii., p. 60.] [Footnote 195: "These people," says Michelet, "whom Mirabeau termed so well the refuse of public contempt, are as if restored to character by punishment. The gallows becomes their apotheosis. They are now become interesting victims--the martyrs of monarchy; their legend will go on increasing in pathetic fictions. Mr. Burke canonized them and prayed on their tomb."--_Historical View of the French Revolution_, p. 190.] [Footnote 196: Sir Archibald Alison, true to his instincts as the advocate of aristocratic usurpation, carefully conceals the character of these men, which drew down upon them the vengeance of the mob. Impartial history, while denouncing the ferocity of the mob, should not conceal those outrages which roused the people to madness.]