186 Jeanette Needham. 
preted, doubtless, the sentiments of the majority of the deputies 
when he declared that the day of the union of the three orders 
should be a time of rejoicing and gladness; that a moment so 
touching for them should not be employed in work." 
The news of the union produced the greatest excitement and 
enthusiasm among the people and Versailles went wild in cele- 
brating the event. The deputies received an ovation as they 
scattered from the session! and they had hardly left the hall— 
so Biauzat states*—when the people rushed to the chateau in 
crowds, ‘‘as if in response to an instinct of love for their sov- 
ereigns.” Frightened, very probably, by the great throngs, the 
guards stopped them at the outer gate, but the cries of Vive le 
voi! were so constantly repeated that they were permitted to 
enter the second court and even the third—the so-called court 
of marble. In response to the cries of the crowd, the king and 
queen came out on a balcony at the side of this court. Their 
appearance was the signal for prolonged shouts of Vive le row! 
Vive la reine! until the queen was moved to tears by this demon- 
stration of devotion, typical of the feelings of the whole nation 
for its rulers. Then, as if yielding to a single impulse, the 
great throngs renewed their shouts, calling for the little dauphin. 
The queen went to bring the young prince from his apartments 
in order to present him to his admiring subjects. This enthu- 
siasm portraying the loyalty of the French to the king was enough 
Histoire de la rév., 1, 242; Etats-généraux, Extrait du journal de Paris, 126; 
Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIV, 30; Jallet, 108. Apropos of 
the adjournment, Bailly, (I, 252-253) gives the following incident: ‘ J’étais 
alors debout devant le bureau. M. le cardinal de La Rochefoucauld se leva, 
et se trouva bientét prés de moi. J’entendis un membre du clergé qui lui 
dit: Monseigneur, il faudrait que vous levassiez la séance. Vous avez raison, 
reprit M. de La Rochefoucauld; et il se disposait 4 retourner 4 sa place pour 
l’annoncer. Je l’arrét-toi: Monseigneur, vous ne pouvez pas lever la séance; 
vous n’étes pas président. Mais il est tard; personne n’a diné. Chacun est 
libre de se retirer individuellement. Mais, quant a l’assemblée, elle’ ne peut 
étre rompue que par sa propre volonté; et c’est a son seul président, c’est a 
moi, de la consulter:” Bailly says that the cardinal did not insist and that 
he himself, after having consulted several near the table, among them the 
secretaries and the Duke of Orleans, gave the order for adjournment. 
12 Coster, Récit, 347; Boullé, Decuments inédits, Revue de la rév., XIV, 30. 
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