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Others are to follow during the evening and in the night.
Others are waiting at Versailles. Many, both at Paris and
Versailles, are under pay: one, in a dirty whitish vest, chinks gold
and silver coin in his hand. -- Such is the foul scum which, both
in front and in the rear, rolls along with the popular tide;
whatever is done to stem the torrent, it widens out and will leave
its mark at every stage of its overflow.
The first troop, consisting of four or five hundred women, begin
operations by forcing the guard of the H?tel-de-Ville, which is
unwilling to make use of its bayonets. They spread through the
rooms and try to burn all the written documents they can find,
declaring that there has been nothing but scribbling since the
Revolution began.[33] A crowd of men follow after them, bursting
open doors, and pillaging the magazine of arms. Two hundred
thousand francs in Treasury notes are stolen or disappear; several
of the ruffians set fire to the building, while others hang an abb?.


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