Patriotism, accordingly, regrets that his zeal seems to be getting cool. Meanwhile, finances give trouble enough. Great and greater waxes President Danton in his Cordeliers section. This man also, like Mirabeau, has a natural eye. Fifteen thousand men are at work on the Champs de Mars, hollowing it out into a national amphitheatre.
Workmen being lazy, all Paris turns out to complete the preparations.
From all points of the compass federates arrive. And the feast of pikes dances itself off and becomes defunct.