[Footnote 1217: Dampmartin, ibid. i. 25: "I was dining this very day at the Hôtel d'Ecquevilly, in the Rue Saint-Louis." He leaves the house on foot and witnesses the disturbance. "Fifteen to Sixteen hundred wretches, the excrement of the nation, degraded by shameful vices, covered with rags, and gorged with brandy, presented the most disgusting and revolting spectacle. More than a hundred thousand persons of both sexes and of all ages and conditions interfered greatly with the operations of the troops. The firing soon commenced and blood flowed: two innocent persons were wounded near me."] [Footnote 1218: De Goncourt, "La Société Française pendant la Révolution." Thirty-one gambling-houses are counted here, while a pamphlet of the day is entitled "Pétition des deux mill cent filles du Palais-Royal."] [Footnote 1219: Montjoie, 2nd part, 144.--Bailly, II, 130.] [Footnote 1220: Arthur Young, June 24th, 1789.--Montjoie, 2nd part, 69.] [Footnote 1221: Arthur Young, June 9th, 24th, and 26th.--"La France libre," passim, by C. Desmoulins.] [Footnote 1222: C. Desmoulins, letters to his father, and Arthur Young, June 9th.] [Footnote 1223: Montjoie, 2nd part, 69, 77, 124, 144. C. Desmoulins, letter, of June 24th and the following days.] [Footnote 1224: Etienne Dumont, "Souvenirs," p.72.--C. Desmoulins, letter of; June 24th.--Arthur Young, June 25th.--Buchez and Roux, II. 28.] [Footnote 1225: Bailly, I. 227 and 179.--Monnier, "Recherches sur les causes," etc. I. 289, 291; II.61;--Malouet, I. 299; II. 10.--"Actes des Apôtres," V.43. (Letter of M. de Guillermy, July 31st, 1790).--Marmontel, I. 28: "The people came even into the Assembly, to encourage their partisans, to select and indicate their victims, and to terrify the feeble with the dreadful trial of open balloting."] [Footnote 1226: Manuscript letters of M. Boullé, deputy, to the municipal authorities of Pontivy, from May 1st, 1789, to September 4th, 1790 (communicated by M. Rosenzweig, archivist at Vannes). June 16th, 1789: "The crowd gathered around the hall. . . was, during these days, from 3,000 to 4,000 persons."] [Footnote 1227: Letters of M. Boullé, June 23rd. "How sublime the moment, that in which we enthusiastically bind ourselves to the country by a new oath!. . . . Why should this moment be selected by one of our number to dishonor himself? His name is now blasted throughout France. And the unfortunate man has children! Suddenly overwhelmed by public contempt he leaves, and falls fainting at the door, exclaiming, 'Ah! this will be my death!' I do not know what has become of him since. What is strange is, he had not behaved badly up to that time, and he voted for the Constitution."] [Footnote 1228: De Ferrières, I. 168.--Malouet, I. 298 (according to him the faction did not number more than ten members),--idem II. 10.--Dumont, 250.]