cannot easily be imagined." "Three days ago a child of four years,
well taught and intelligent, was promenaded around the garden, in
broad daylight, at least twenty times, borne on the shoulders of a
street porter, crying out, 'Verdict of the French people: Polignac
exiled one hundred leagues from Paris; Condé the same; Conti the
same; Artois the same; the Queen, -- I dare not write it.'" A hall
made of boards in the middle of the Palais-Royal is always full,
especially of young men, who carry on their deliberations in
parliamentary fashion : in the evening the president invites the
spectators to come forward and sign motions passed during the day,
and of which the originals are placed in the Café Foy.[23] They
count on their fingers the enemies of the country; "and first two
Royal Highnesses (Monsieur and the Count d'Artois), three Most
Serene Highnesses (the Prince de Condé, Duc de Bourbon, and the
Prince de Conti), one favorite (Madame de Polignac), MM. de
Vandreuil, de la Trémoille, du Châtelet, de Villedeuil, de Barentin,
de la Galaisière, Vidaud de la Tour, Berthier, Foulon, and also M.
Linguet." Placards are posted demanding the pillory on the Pont-Neuf
for the Abbeé Maury. One speaker proposes "to burn the house of M.
d'Espréménil, his wife, children and furniture, and himself: this is
passed unanimously." -- No opposition is tolerated. One of those
present having manifested some horror at such sanguinary motions,
"is seized by the collar, obliged to kneel down, to make an apology,
and to kiss the ground. The punishment inflicted on children is
given to him; he is ducked repeatedly in one of the fountain-basins,
after which they him over to the mob, who roll him in the mud." On
the following day an ecclesiastic is trodden under foot, and flung
from hand to hand. A few days after, on the 22nd of June, there are
two similar events. The sovereign mob exercises all the functions
of sovereign authority, with those of the legislator those of the