I hope, if bread does not fall short, that many things will return to their proper order.

I speak to the people, militia, fish-women, and all: all offer me their hands; I give them mine.
In the Hotel de Ville I was personally well received.

The people this morning begged us to remain here.

I answered them, speaking for the king, who was by my side, that it depended on themselves whether we remained; that we desired nothing better; that all animosities must be laid aside; that the slightest renewal of bloodshed would make us flee, with horror.
Those who were nearest to me swore that all that was over.

I told the fish-women to go and tell others all that we had just said to one another.[2]" And a day or two later, on the 10th, even while giving fuller expression to her feelings of unhappiness, and of disgust at the events of the past week, as to which she assures Mercy that "no description could be exaggerated; on the contrary, that any account must fall far short of what the king and she had seen and experienced," she yet repeats that "she hopes to bring back to a right feeling the honest and sound portion of the citizens and people.