In the first week of July, an abbe who speaks ill of Necker is flogged; a woman who insults the bust of Necker is stripped by the fishwomen, and beaten until she is covered with blood.

War is declared against suspicious uniforms.

"On the appearance of a hussar," writes Desmoulins, "they shout, 'There goes Punch!' and the stone-cutters fling stones at him.

Last night two officers of the hussars, MM.

de Sombreuil and de Polignac, came to the Palais-Royal.