HOCHE. Every sort of injustice concerns us. Our Revolution is not a family matter. If we are not rich enough to have relations in the Bastille, we can at least adopt the rich people who are as unfortunate as we. Every man who suffers unjustly is a brother.
MARAT. You are right.
THE PEOPLE. We want the Bastille!
HULIN. But, you fools, how are you going to take it? We have no weapons, and they have!
HOCHE. Of course. Let us take the weapons, then. [Confusion at the back of the stage.]
A WORKINGMAN [running in]. I've just come from the Left Bank. They're all on the move: in the Place Maubert, La Basoche, La Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. They're marching against the Invalides to seize the weapons there—thousands of muskets! The French Guards, monks, women, students, a whole army. The King's Attorney and the Curé de Saint-Etienne-du-Mont are marching at their head.
HOCHE. You were asking for weapons, Hulin. There they are.
HULIN. You can't take the Bastille with a few hundred old arquebuses, or even a few good cannon from the Invalides. You might as well try to split a rock open with a knife.
HOCHE. No, the Bastille can't be taken with cannon, but it will be taken.
HULIN. How?