The things we do!

Louis, and their badges seemed an object of "increasing hatred."
"The badge excited coarse mutterings, even on the part of persons
who appeared superior to the agitators."
[17] Dampmartin, ibid. i. 25 : " I was dining this very day at the
H?tel d'Ecquevilly, in the Rue Saint-Louis." He leaves the house on
foot and witnesses the disturbance. "Fifteen to Sixteen hundred
wretches, the excrement of the nation, degraded by shameful vices,
covered with rags, and gorged with brandy, presented the most
disgusting and revolting spectacle. More than a hundred thousand
persons of both sexes and of all ages and conditions interfered
greatly with the operations of the troops. The firing soon
commenced and blood flowed: two innocent persons were wounded near
me."
[18] De Goncourt, "La Soci?t? Fran?aise pendant la R?volution."
Thirty-one gambling-houses are counted here, while a pamphlet of the
day is entitled "P?tition des deux mill cent filles du Palais-
Royal."
[19] Montjoie, 2nd part, 144.


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