38 MEMOIR OF FLEEMING JENKIN 



' I immediately went out with my papa (mamma 

 had just come back with him) and went to the 

 Place de la Concorde. There was an enormous 

 quantity of troops in the Place. Suddenly the 

 gates of the gardens of the Tuileries opened : we 

 rushed forward, out gallopped an enormous number 

 of cuirassiers, in the middle of which were a couple 

 of low carriages, said first to contain the Count 

 de Paris and the Duchess of Orleans, but after- 

 wards they said it was the King and Queen ; and 

 then I heard he had abdicated. I returned and 

 gave the news. 



' Went out again up the Boulevards. The house 

 of the Minister of Foreign Affairs was filled 

 with people and " HBtel du Peuple " written 

 on it ; the Boulevards were barricaded with fine 

 old trees that were cut down and stretched 

 all across the road. We went through a great 

 many little streets, all strongly barricaded, and 

 sentinels of the people at the principal of them. 

 The streets are very unquiet, filled with armed 

 men and women, for the troops had followed the 

 ex-King to Neuilly and left Paris in the power of 

 the people. We met the captain of the Third 

 Legion of the National Guard (who had principally 

 protected the people), badly wounded by a Municipal 

 Guard, stretched on a litter. He was in possession 

 of his senses. He was surrounded by a troop of 

 men crying " Our brave captain — we have him yet 



