The things we do!

The punishment inflicted on children is
given to him; he is ducked repeatedly in one of the fountain-basins,
after which they him over to the mob, who roll him in the mud." On
the following day an ecclesiastic is trodden under foot, and flung
from hand to hand. A few days after, on the 22nd of June, there are
two similar events. The sovereign mob exercises all the functions
of sovereign authority, with those of the legislator those of the
judge, and those of the judge with those of the executioner. -- Its
idols are sacred; if any one fails to show them respect he is guilty
of l?se-majest?, and at once punished. In the first week of July,
an abb? 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.


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