of the hand, a glance, a significant gesture, are the eloquence of men of action.  In a few words, Danton dictated the purpose, Santerre the means, Marat the atrocious energy, Camilla Desmoulins the cynical gaiety of the projected movement, and all decided on the resolution of urging the people to this act.  A revolutionary map of Paris was laid on the table, and on it Danton traced the sources, the tributary streams, the course, and the meeting-place of these gatherings of the people.

The Place de la Bastille, an immense square into which opened, like the mouths of so many rivers, the numerous streets of the faubourg St. Antoine, which joins, by the quartier de l’Arsenale and a bridge, the faubourg St. Marceau, and which, by the boulevard, opened before the ancient fortress, has a large opening to the centre of the city and the Tuileries, was the rendezvous assigned, and the place whence the columns were to depart.  They were to be divided into three bodies, and a petition to present to the king and the Assembly against the veto to the decree against the priests and the camp of 20,000 men, was the ostensible purpose of the movement; the recall of the patriot ministers, Roland, Servan, and Claviere, the countersign; and the terror of the people, disseminated in Paris and the chateau of the Tuileries the effect of this day.  Paris expected this visit of the faubourgs, for five hundred persons had dined together the previous day on the Champs Elysees.

The chief of the federes of Marseilles and the agitators of the central quarters had fraternised there with the Girondists.  The actor Dugazon had sung verses, denunciatory of the inhabitants of the Chateau; and at his window in the Tuileries the king had heard the applause and these menacing strains, that reached even to his palace.  As for the order of the march, the grotesque emblems, the strange weapons, the hideous costumes, the horrible banners and the obscene language, destined to signal the apparition of this army of the faubourgs in the streets of the capital, the conspirators prescribed nothing, for disorder and horror formed a part of the programme, and they left all to the disordered imagination of the populace, and to that rivalry of cynicism which invariably takes place in such masses of men.  Danton relied on this fact.

VI.

Although the presence of Panis and Sergent, two members of the municipality, gave a tacit sanction to the plan, the leaders undertook to recruit the sedition in silence, by small groups during the night, and to collect the fiercest rassemblements of the quartier Saint Marceau and the Jardin des Plantes, on the bank of the Arsenale, by means of a ferry, then the only means of communication between the two faubourgs.  Lareynie was to arouse the faubourg St. Jacques and the market of the place Maubert, where the women of the lower classes came daily to make their household purchases.  To sell and to buy is the life of the lower orders, and money and famine are their two leading passions.  They are always ready for tumult in those places where these two passions concentrate, and no where is sedition more readily excited, or in greater masses of people.