pieces. A deputy of the nobles, on his way to the National
Assembly, is seized in his cab and conducted to the Place de Grève;
the corpse of M. de Launay is shown to him, and he is told that he
is to be treated in the same fashion. - Every life hangs by a
thread, and, on the following days, when the King had sent away his
troops, dismissed his Ministers, recalled Necker, and granted
everything, the danger remains just as great. The multitude,
abandoned to the revolutionaries and to itself, continues the same
bloody antics, while the municipal chiefs[50] whom it has elected,
Bailly, Mayor of Paris, and Lafayette, commandant of the National
Guard, are obliged to use cunning, to implore, to throw themselves
between the multitude and the unfortunates whom they wish to
destroy.

On the 15th of July, in the night, a woman disguised as a man is
arrested in the court of the Hôtel-de-Ville, and so maltreated that
she faints away; Bailly, in order to save her, is obliged to feign
anger against her and have her sent immediately to prison. From the
14th to the 22nd of July, Lafayette, at the risk of his life, saves
with his own hand seventeen persons in different quarters.[51] -- On
the 22nd of July, upon the denunciations which multiply around Paris
like trains of gunpowder, two administrators of high rank, M.
Foulon, Councillor of State, and M. Berthier, his son-in-law, are
arrested, one near Fontainebleau, and the other near Compiègne. M.
Foulon, a strict master,[52] but intelligent and useful, expended
sixty thousand francs the previous winter on his estate in giving
employment to the poor. M. Berthier, an industrious and capable
man, had officially surveyed and valued Ile-de-France, to equalize
the taxes, and had reduced the overcharged quotas first one-eighth
and then a quarter. But both of these gentlemen have arranged the