Excerpt from History of the Girondists, Vol. 2 of 3: Or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution The battalion of the Filles St. Thomas, consisting of men devoted to the constitution, loaded its arms in Pétion's pre sence. The unanimous voice of the citizens accused the mayor of Paris of having had the desire to commit crime, without daring to display such inclination. Sergent, who accompanied Petion, was thrown down by a national guard, and indignantly trampled upon in the courtyard of the Tuileries. The Directory of Paris suspended the Maire. He made preparations for defence around the chateau against a fresh assemblage threatened for that evening. There was a talk of proclaiming martial law, of unfolding the red flag. The Assembly was excited in the evening by these reports. Gaudet declared that they were desirous of renewing the bloody day of the champ-de-mars against the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.