42 Jeanette Needham. 
_with having frightened the king and queen by representing the 
third estate as bent on the annihilation of the royal authority.“ 
Naturally, he was designated as one of the court cabal that had 
instigated the proceedings in the royal session.?» He was also 
held responsible for the failure of all the clergy to join the third 
estate.” 
In view of this manifold popular indictment, the archbishop 
‘was hissed in the most violent manner as he emerged from the 
building. Mud was thrown at him as he entered his carriage; 
the coachman tried to save’ him from further indignities, by 
driving madly down the street toward his lodgings. But the 
crowd pursued, increasing in number as it went, hurling rocks 
-at the carriage and breaking the glass.2”. The story goes that 
the terrified prelate descended precipitately from the vehicle 
to seek refuge in his lodgings at the Mission, occupied by the 
priests who conducted the services at Notre Dame, but the 
shower of stones forced him to take shelter behind a sentry box. 
He was rescued from this situation by some deputies of the 
commons who interceded with the crowd, took him into their 
midst, conducted him into the church of Notre Dame, and 
closed the door after him.*$ 
24 Lettre d’un membre de l’assemblée nationale, 40. 
2 Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la révolution, XIII, 74; Jefferson, 
II, 486. 
26 Young, 180; Bailli de Virieu, 104. 
27 Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la révolution, XIII, 74-75; Saiffert, 
Documents inédits, Revue de la révolution, V1; Coster, Récit, 340; Biauzat, 
II, 138; Branche, Letter of June 24, quoted in Biauzat, II, footnote, 138-139; 
Lettre d'un membre de i assemblée nationale, 41-42; Jallet, 102; Duquesnoy, I, 
128; Young, 180; Bulletins d’un agent secret, La révolution frangaise, XXIV, 
71; Bailli de Virieu, 104; Dorset, I, 224-225; Jefferson, II, 486. 
The first six, at least, seem to have been eyewitnesses of all or part of the 
affair. The last five were in Paris, but Jefferson went to Versailles the next 
day. 
28 Lettre d’un membre de l’assemblée nationale, 42. This man says that he 
watched the crowd from his window. Branche, one of the deputies in the 
crowd, says also that the archbishop escaped into the church. Coster says 
that he had to take refuge with the beadle, probably connected with the 
church of Notre Dame. Duquesnoy reports that the archbishop was saved 
from further maltreatment through the intervéntion of some deputies. 
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