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Palais Royal, of their being treated free of charge at the cafés, 
and of the eulogies pronounced in their honor by enthusiastic 
orators of the popular resorts. There was said to be a standing 
order at the cabarets to give the soldiers whatever they desired. 
It was generally assumed that the Duc d’Orléans. provided the 
funds to pay the bills at the cafés.** Apropos of the treatment 
accorded the French Guards by the Parisian public, the author 
of the Bulletins d’un agent secret wrote on June 25: ‘“‘I have 
seen several of them promenading upon the boulevards and in 
the Palais Royal, followed by a huge crowd which never stopped 
applauding them. I have been the witness of a most extra- 
ordinary scene at the Palais Royal. Several French Guards 
who went there with the intention of attracting notice were sur- 
rounded by the people and conducted in triumph to the café, 
where they were made to drink perhaps more than they wished. 
One individual mounted a chair in the Palais Royal, opposite 
the Café du Caveau; there, surrounded by more than ten thousand 
persons, he pronounced very loudly the eulogy of the French 
Guards. He was generally applauded. In the distance could 
be seen some French Guards half intoxicated, promenading in tri- 
umph.”’ Two days later, the same man noted that the French 
Guards conducted themselves in their usual manner: ‘They cir- 
culate in platoons, become intoxicated and cry, ‘Long live the 
third estate!’’’ He adds: “I haveseena strange sight. About sixty 
or eighty of the dregs of the populace joined and paraded insideand 
outside the city; one of them marched at the head and carried a 
banner upon which could be read very distinctly: Vive le Roi! 
Vive M. le duc d’Orléans! Vive le tiers état! This troop stopped 
before all bodies of the French Guards to salute them and then 
shouted at the top of their voices: Vivent nos comarades!’’*4 
53 Young, 180; Jefferson, II, 487-488; Bulletins d'un agent secret, La rév. 
frangaise, XXIV, 70, 74-75; Correspondance d'un député . . . avec la Marquise 
de Crequy, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., 11, 36-38; Salmour, in Flammer- 
mont, Les Correspondances des agents diplomatiques étrangers, 231; Dorset, I, 
226; Mercy to Jos. II, in Arneth and Flammermont, Correspondance secréte, 
II, 252-253; Lescure, Correspondance secréte, I1, 367; Bailli de Virieu, 106; 
Maleissye, 23; Besenval, II, 351. The last two did not write at the time, 
but both were in Paris during the time these events occurred. 
54 Bulletins d’un agent secret, La rév. frangatse, XXIV, 70, 74-75. 
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