[Footnote 66: This was the princess who subsequently experienced such terrible suffering in the prison of the Temple, with her brother, the dauphin. She was released by Napoleon, and afterward married the Duke d'Angoulême.] [Footnote 67: Desodoards, vol. i., p. 28. Thiers, vol. i., p. 23.] [Footnote 68: Desodoards, vol. i., p. 50.] [Footnote 69: Histoire Phil. de la Rev. de Fr. par Ant. Fantin Desodoards, vol. i., p. 45.] [Footnote 70: Memoirs of Marie Antoinette, by Madame Campan, vol. i., p. 243.] [Footnote 71: "Paris is what they call in figurative speech flooded with pamphlets (_regorgé des brochures_), flooded and eddying again. Hot deluge from so many patriot ready-writers, all at the fervid or boiling point; each ready-writer now in the hour of eruption going like an Iceland geyser! Against which what can a judicious friend, Morellet, do; a Rivarol, an unruly Linguet (well paid for it), spouting _cold_?"--_Carlyle_, vol. i., p. 91.] [Footnote 72: Montgaillard, tome i., p. 405.] [Footnote 73: The following was the commission of D'Agoust: "J'ordonne au sieur d'Agoust, capitaine de mes gardes françaises, de se rendre au palais à la tête de six companies, d'en occuper toutes les avenues, et d'arrêter dans la grand chambre de mon parlement, ou partout aillieurs, messieurs Duval d'Espréménil et Goislard, conseillers, pour les remettre entre les mains des officiers de la prévôte de l'hôtel."--_Desodoards_, tome i., p. 82.] [Footnote 74: Carlyle, vol. i., p. 101.] [Footnote 75: Weber, vol. i., p. 275.] [Footnote 76: Campan, vol. iii., p. 104.] CHAPTER VIII. THE APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE. Recall of Necker.--Reassembling the Notables.--Pamphlet of the Abbé Sièyes.--Vote of the King's Brother.--His supposed Motive.--The Basis of Representation.--Arrangements for the Meeting of the States.--Statement of Grievances.--Mirabeau: his Menace.--Sympathy of the Curates with the People.--Remonstrance of the Nobles.--First Riot.--Meeting of the States-General.--New Effort of the privileged Classes. The king again turned to Necker, as one strong in the confidence of the people. The announcement of his recall filled France with enthusiasm. Guns were fired, bells rung, and masses of people surged through the streets of Paris and of Versailles, shouting exultingly. It was the 24th of August, 1788. Necker's first exclamation, at the intimation of his recall, was, "Ah! that I could recall the fifteen months of the Archbishop of Toulouse." He found but two hundred and fifty thousand francs ($50,000) in the treasury. Though disorder and ruin had made rapid progress, the reputation of Necker was such that he immediately had loans offered him, and the public funds rose thirty per cent.[78]