THE COMMUNE OF PARIS
Decrees:
1.º Enlistment shall go on in the Sections, in the theaters, in the churches and in the public places.
2.º Foreign citizens shall enrol at the City Hall.
3.º The Department of Paris shall furnish at once sixty thousand men.
4.º The armorers, iron-workers and blacksmiths shall report to the Military Committee how fast they can turn out guns, pikes, swords, etc.
5.º All leaden coffins shall be melted up for bullets. The retired soldiers will take charge of this work.
Paris, September 2, 1792,
COULOMBEAU.
On this terrible day, everything converged to throw the population into a somber vertigo. There was not an event which did not drive fatally onward to the massacres in the prisons.