His torments lasted from noon until half-past five o'clock, and he had about ten thousand executioners."-- Consider the effect of such a focal center at a time like this.

A new power has sprung up alongside the legal powers, a legislature of the highways and public squares, anonymous, irresponsible, without restraint.

It is driven onward by coffeehouse theories, by strong emotions and the vehemence of mountebanks, while the bare arms which have just accomplished the work of destruction in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, form its bodyguard and ministerial cabinet.
V .-- Popular mobs become a political force.
Pressure on the Assembly .-- Defection of the soldiery.
This is the dictatorship of a mob, and its proceedings, conforming to its nature, consist in acts of violence, wherever it finds resistance, it strikes .-- The people of Versailles, in the streets and at the doors of the Assembly, daily "come and insult those whom they call aristocrats."[1224] On Monday, June 22nd, "d'Espremenil barely escapes being knocked down; the Abbe Maury.

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