That same evening the Section Le Peletier convened in its committee rooms, and secured the co-operation of the Sections Butte-des-Moulins, Contrat-Social, Luxembourg, Théâtre-Francaise, Rue Poissonière, Brutus, and Temple. Then it filled the streets of Paris with bands of "muscadins" (the word is synonymous with "incroyables", only with a wider meaning), who went about shouting, "Down with the Two-thirds Men!"
The Convention, on the other hand, mustered all the troops it could command at the camp of Sablons, about six thousand men, under General Menou, who in 1792 had commanded the second camp formed near Paris, and had been sent to the Vendée, where he had been defeated. These antecedents had secured him, on the 2d Prairial, the appointment of general of the interior, and had saved the Convention.
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