[Footnote 1409: Floquet, VII. 54. There is the same scene at Granville, in Normandy, on the 16th of October. A woman had assassinated her husband, while a soldier who was her lover is her accomplice; the woman was about to be hung and the man broken on the wheel, when the populace shout, "The nation has the right of pardon," upset the scaffold, and save the two assassins.] [Footnote 1410: Bailly, II. 274 (August 17th).] [Footnote 1411: Bailly, II, 83, 202, 230, 235, 283, 299.] [Footnote 1412: Mercure de France, the number for September 26th.--De Goncourt, p. 111.] [Footnote 1413: Mercier, "Tableau de Paris," I, 58; X. 151.] [Footnote 1414: De Ferrières, I. 178.--Buchez and Roux, II. 311, 316.--Bai11y, II. 104, 174, 207, 246, 257, 282.] [Footnote 1415: Mercure de France, September 5th, 1789. Horace Walpole's Letters, September 5, 1789.--M. de Lafayette, "Mémoires," I. 272. During the week following the 14th of July, 6,000 soldiers deserted and went over to the people, besides 400 and 800 Swiss Guards and six battalions of the French Guards, who remain without officers, and do as they please. Vagabonds from the neighboring villages flock in, and there are more than "30,000 strangers and vagrants" in Paris.] [Footnote 1416: Bailly, II. 282. The crowd of deserters was so great that Lafayette was obliged to place a guard at the barriers to keep them from entering the city. "Without this precaution the whole army would have come in."] [Footnote 1417: De Ferrières, I. 103.--De Lavalette, I. 39.--Bailly, I. 53 (on the lawyers). "It may be said that the success of the Revolution is due to this class."--Marmontel, II. 243 "Since the first elections of Paris, in 1789, I remarked," he says, "this species of restless intriguing men, contending with each other to be heard, impatient to make themselves prominent....It is well known what interest this body (the lawyers) had to change Reform into Revolution, the Monarchy into a Republic; the object was to organize for itself a perpetual aristocracy."--Buchez and Roux, II. 358 (article by C. Desmoulins). "In the districts everybody exhausts his lungs and his time in trying to be president, vice-president, secretary or vice-secretary"]