"Upon which a mans springs out from the galleries, falls upon him and takes him by the collar exclaiming, 'Hold your tongue, you false citizen!'" Malouet is released and the guard comes forward, "but terror has spread through the hall, threats are uttered against opponents, and the next day we were only ninety." Moreover, the lists of their names had been circulated; some of them, deputies from Paris, went to see Bailly that very evening.

One amongst them, "a very honest man and good patriot," had been told that his house was to be set on fire.

Now his wife had just given birth to a child, and the slightest tumult before the house would have been fatal.

Such arguments are decisive.
Consequently, three days afterwards, at the Tennis-court, but one deputy, Martin d'Auch, dares to write the word "opposing" after his name.

Insulted by many of colleagues, "at once denounced to the people who had collected at the entrance of the building, he is obliged to escape by a side door to avoid being cut to pieces," and, for several days, to keep away from the meetings.[1227]--Owing to this intervention of the galleries the radical minority, numbering about thirty,[1228] lead the majority, and they do not allow them to free themselves .-- On the 28th of May, Malouet, having demanded a secret session to discuss the conciliatory measures which the King had proposed, the galleries hoot at him, and a deputy, M.Bourche, addresses him in very plain terms.