120 Jeanetle Needham. 
more troops arrived in Versailles, among them, according to 
Boullé, all the body guards in quarters at Saint-Germain or 
elsewhere. Besides these, additional forces of French and 
Swiss Guards and also a large number of hussars, a regiment 
according to Jallet, appeared early on June 25.* Boullé adds 
that it was announced that still others were on the way. He 
asserts that to give a plausible pretext for this military invest- 
ment of Versailles, rumors were spread that the country house 
of the Archbishop of Paris had been burned and that Chantilly, 
the country seat of the Duke of Condé, had suffered a similar 
fate, but neither report was true. 
Additional guards were placed around the hall of the estates 
the next day, as already indicated. The exclusion of the public, 
although by no means absolutely enforced, kept popular feeling 
at white heat and led, as has been shown, to an attempt to 
break into the hall despite the guards. Restrained from carrying 
out this project, the populace made further demonstrations of 
hostility against unpopular members of the upper orders. D’Ep- 
rémesnil, for instance, was saved from violence on June 25, 
only by the intervention of some deputies of the third estate. 
The popular Archbishop of Vienne, on the other hand, was 
embraced by fish-wives when entering his carriage.’ 
The hostility of the masses of Versailles toward the conserva- 
tives of the upper orders and their outspoken support of the 
third estate, were given a more serious aspect by the fact that 
the troops, upon whom depended the keeping of order in the 
city, gave increasing evidence of their adhesion to the popular 
cause. Jallet claims that when the hussars arrived, the French 
Guards gave them to understand that if they committed the least 
act of violence against any one, they themselves would be fired 
3 Jallet, 103, 106; Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIII, 75, 77; 
Biauzat, II, 140. 
4 Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XITI, 75. 
5 Duquesnoy, I, 132.. Inthe same passage, Duquesnoy relates the following 
incident also: ‘‘ On assure que le duc de la Trémoille a osé derniérement dire 
dans la galerie qu’il fallait pendre quelques députés du tiers état, et qu’un de 
ceux qui l’a entendu a dit tout haut: ‘II n’est pas possible que cet homme- 
la descende du brave chevalier La Trémoille: sans doute qu’il est fils d’un des 
laquais de sa mére.’ ”’ 
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