willingly or unwillingly, all they encounter. Others, at the gate
of Saint-Antoine, arrest people who are returning from the races,
demanding of them if they are for the nobles or for the Third-
Estate, and force women to descend from their vehicles and to cry
"Vive le Tiers-Etat "[16]. Meanwhile the crowd has increased
before Réveillon's dwelling; the thirty men on guard are unable to
resist; the house is invaded and sacked from top to bottom; the
furniture, provisions, clothing, registers, wagons, even the poultry
in the back-yard, all is cast into blazing bonfires lighted in three
different places; five hundred louis d'or, the ready money, and the
silver plate are stolen. Several roam through the cellars, drink
liquor or varnish at haphazard until they fall down dead drunk or
expire in convulsions. Against this howling horde, a corps of the
watch, mounted and on foot, is seen approaching;[17] also a hundred
cavalry of the "Royal Croats," the French Guards, and later on the
Swiss Guards. "Tiles and chimneys are rained down on the soldiers,"
who fire back four files at a time. The rioters, drunk with brandy
and rage, defend themselves desperately for several hours; more than
two hundred are killed, and nearly three hundred are wounded; they
are only put down by cannon, while the mob keeps active until far
into the night. - Towards eight in the evening, in the rue
Vieille-du-Temple, the Paris Guard continue to make charges in order
to protect the doors which the miscreants try to force. Two doors
are forced at half-past eleven o'clock in the Rue Saintonge and in
the Rue de Bretagne, that of a pork-dealer and that of a baker.
Even to this last wave of the outbreak which is subsiding we can
distinguish the elements which have produced the insurrection, and
which are about to produce the Revolution. -- Starvation is one of
these: in the Rue de Bretagne the band robbing the baker's shop
carries bread off to the women staying at the corner of the Rue