122 Jeanette Needham. 
dismissed officers. The king, Salmour adds, wrote at the bottom 
of the memoir, “I have always counted upon the fidelity of 
my body guards,’ and returned it to them. The latter were 
not appeased, however, although Duquesnoy reported on June 
28 that one of the officers had been restored. They declared to 
the Duc de Guiche, according to Salmour, that if their comrade 
were not re-instated the king would have six hundred bandoleers ~ 
at his disposition when their term of service expired at the end 
of June.’ In face of such a spirit the order of the king given to 
the Duc de Guiche, apparently on June 25, presumably as a 
consequence of the disturbances of the previous evening, was 
not likely to be executed. Clearly these troops could not 
be depended upon to carry out such an order, although their 
defection was due, not to their sympathy with the popular 
movement, but to their repugnance toward the performance of 
ordinary police duties which the authorities were requiring of 
them. Their resentment toward such service was natural in 
view of the fact that both the men and the officers of the body 
guards came from the nobility. 
The excitement in Versailles was mild, however, compared 
with the insubordination in Paris, where the Palais Royal was 
the center of the most extreme agitation. Bailli de Virieu, 
ambassador from Parma, in a despatch of June 29, gives a vivid 
picture of the intense excitement in the capital during the days 
after the royal session:!° ‘‘The fermentation of spirit was so 
great from Tuesday, the 23d, to Friday, the 26th, that one might 
believe, from seeing and hearing the Parisians that a burning 
9 Jallet, 106; Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIII, 27; Salmour, 
in Flammermont, Les Correspondances des agents diplomatiques étrangers, 231; 
Duquesnoy, I, 141. Jallet simply states that two were dismissed, but says 
nothing as to how the complaint was made. Salmour says: “‘ Un maréchal 
des logis, bas officier avec rang de lieutenant-colonel, est venu dire, au nom 
de troupe.”” He adds that the officer was dismissed. Duquesnoy has this: 
“On raconte qu’un un exempt et un maréchal des logis des gardes du corps 
du roi ont été déclarer au duc de Guiche etc.’’ He adds that both were 
dismissed, but the exempt was restored. Duquesnoy states that it was 
possible that four companies would resign and Salmour indicates that six 
hundred men threatened to take this step. 
10 Bailli de Virieu, 99-100. 
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