Next day the Assembly reconsidered this, and negatived its vote of the previous evening; but publicity was still given to it, and it echoed through the provinces, carrying with it the disquietude, derision, and hatred attached to the _Royal Veto_.

The constitution, handed over to ridicule and hooted in full assembly, had now become the plaything of the populace.
For many months the state of the kingdom resembled the state of Paris.
All was uproar, confusion, denunciation, disturbance in the departments.
Each courier brought his riots, seditions, petitions, outbreaks, and assassinations.

The clubs established as many points of resistance to the constitution as there were communes in the empire.

The civil war hatching in La Vendee burst out by massacres at Avignon.
VI.
This city and comtal, united to France by the recent decree of the Constituent Assembly, had remained from this period in an intermediary state between two dominations, so favourable to anarchy.

The partisans of the papal government, and the partisans of the reunion with France, struggled there in alternations of hope and fear, which prolonged and envenomed their hate.