As for the order of the march, the grotesque emblems, the strange weapons, the hideous costumes, the horrible banners and the obscene language, destined to signal the apparition of this army of the faubourgs in the streets of the capital, the conspirators prescribed nothing, for disorder and horror formed a part of the programme, and they left all to the disordered imagination of the populace, and to that rivalry of cynicism which invariably takes place in such masses of men.

Danton relied on this fact.
VI.
Although the presence of Panis and Sergent, two members of the municipality, gave a tacit sanction to the plan, the leaders undertook to recruit the sedition in silence, by small groups during the night, and to collect the fiercest _rassemblements_ of the quartier Saint Marceau and the Jardin des Plantes, on the bank of the Arsenale, by means of a ferry, then the only means of communication between the two faubourgs.

Lareynie was to arouse the faubourg St.Jacques and the market of the place Maubert, where the women of the lower classes came daily to make their household purchases.

To sell and to buy is the life of the lower orders, and money and famine are their two leading passions.

They are always ready for tumult in those places where these two passions concentrate, and no where is sedition more readily excited, or in greater masses of people.
The dyer Malard, the shoemaker Isambert, the tanner Gibon, rich and influential artizans, were to pour from the sombre and foetid streets of the faubourg Saint Marceau their indigent population, who but rarely show themselves in the principal quartiers.