The Baron¹ makes a speech to the National Assembly, and drives out all the members—Routs the fishwomen and the National Guards—Pursues the whole rout² into a Church, where he defeats the National Assembly, &c., with Rousseau, Voltaire, and Beelzebub at their head, and liberates³ Marie Antoinette and the Royal Family.  
Passing through Switzerland on my return from India, I was informed that several of the German nobility had been deprived of the honours and immunities⁴ of their French estates. I heard of the sufferings of the amiable⁵ Marie Antoinette, and swore to avenge⁶ every look that had threatened her with insult. I went to the cavern⁷ of these Anthropophagi, assembled to debate, and gracefully⁸ putting the hilt of my sword to my lips—"I swear," cried I, "by the sacred cross of my sword, that if you do not instantly reinstate your king and his nobility, and your injured queen, I will cut the one half of you to pieces."
 
On which the President, taking up a leaden inkstand, flung it at my head. I stooped to avoid the blow, and rushing to the tribunal seized the Speaker, who was fulminating against the Aristocrats⁹, and taking the creature by one leg, flung him at the President. I laid about me most nobly, drove them all out of the house, and locking the doors put the key in my pocket.
 
I then went to the poor king, and making my obeisance¹⁰ to him—"Sire," said I, "your enemies have all fled. I alone am the National Assembly at present, and I shall register your edicts to recall the princes and the nobility; and in future, if your majesty¹¹ pleases, I will be your Parliament and Council." He thanked me, and the amiable Marie Antoinette, smiling, gave me her hand to kiss.
 
At that moment I perceived a party of the National Assembly, who had rallied with the National Guards, and a vast procession of fishwomen, advancing against me. I deposited their Majesties¹² in a place of safety, and with my drawn¹³ sword advanced against my foes¹⁴. Three hundred fishwomen, with bushes dressed with ribbons in their hands, came hallooing and roaring against me like so many furies. I scorned to defile¹⁵ my sword with their blood, but seized the first that came up, and making her kneel down I knighted her with my sword, which so terrified the rest that they all set up a frightful¹⁶ yell and ran away as fast as they could for fear of being aristocrated by knighthood.
 
As to the National Guards and the rest of the Assembly, I soon put them to flight; and having made prisoners of some of them, compelled them to take down their national, and put the old royal cockade in its place.
 
I then pursued the enemy to the top of a hill, where a most noble edifice¹⁷ dazzled my sight; noble and sacred it was but now converted to the vilest¹⁸ purposes, their monument de grands hommes, a

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