. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . or of the Journal des Ddbats—Lodofska assists him—Septembermassacres—First meeting of the Convention—Amar compli-ments Lodoiska—Her retort. THE Girondists now set themselves to remove thelast support of the tottering monarchy. Theydisbanded the Kings body-guards, voted the banish-ment of all priests who refused to take the constitu-tional oath; and Servan proposed that a camp oftwenty thousand men drawn from the Departments(federes) should be formed in the neighbourhood ofParis, ostensibly to train them for the army, but inreality to guard the Assembl
. Louvet: revolutionist & romance-writer . or of the Journal des Ddbats—Lodofska assists him—Septembermassacres—First meeting of the Convention—Amar compli-ments Lodoiska—Her retort. THE Girondists now set themselves to remove thelast support of the tottering monarchy. Theydisbanded the Kings body-guards, voted the banish-ment of all priests who refused to take the constitu-tional oath; and Servan proposed that a camp oftwenty thousand men drawn from the Departments(federes) should be formed in the neighbourhood ofParis, ostensibly to train them for the army, but inreality to guard the Assembly against possible attackseither on the part of the Royalists, or of the Parisianmob, which had been armed by the Jacobins. With the good-natured stupidity so characteristicof him, Louis sanctioned the decree for the disbandingof the body-guards, obviously directed against him-self, but vetoed the other two. Thereupon MadameRoland, in her husbands name, addressed the famousletter of remonstrance to the King, in which she took 80. From an engraving by Batidran, after the portrait carried by Buzot. MADAME ROLAND. [ To face page So. LOUVET upon herself to rate him like a truant showed his resentment at this impertinence bydismissing the whole Ministry, except Dumouriez,whose policy it was to humour the King that hemight rule him. But the ambitious General was aslittle to the Kings mind as the disgraced Girondists,and finding that Louis distrusted him personally andhad no faith in his plans, Dumouriez resigned andaccepted a command in the army. Power then fellinto the hands of Lafayette and his friends. Alarmed by the dismissal of the popular GirondistMinistry, and by the truculent attitude of Lafayette,the armed mob of Paris revolted on June 20th, andinvaded the Tuileries. On this occasion the Kingfirmly maintained his veto on the decrees, andthroughout the trying ordeal, acted with dignity andforbearance, with the result that the rebels withdrewfrom the
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