188 Jeanette Needham. 
Other men dear to the populace, as Bailly, the Duc d’Orléans 
and Montmorin, who alone among the ministers was believed to 
have supported Necker, likewise received the homage of the 
crowd.!” 
Boullé says that as the joint session of the orders was closing, 
a police officer came to ask if it would be agreeable to the as- 
sembly to have a public celebration. Evidently the assembly 
approved the request, for, at seven o’clock, an order was issued 
providing tor illuminations for three days. That same night 
all Versailles was illuminated, bonfires kindled, rockets fired and 
the “‘joy was so universal that it seemed as if everyone had met 
again the person dearest to him, as if every one had gained a 
personal advantage.’’'8 Soldiers and citizens alike shared in 
‘this joy. The crowds poured out into the gardens and upon the 
terraces with drums, fifes, and violins to dance for part of the 
night under the windows of the chateau. All the next day 
fishwives promenaded the streets with bouquets, to the beat of 
drums, and the evening of June 28 bonfires and fireworks drew 
the crowds to the quarter where the Archbishop of Paris lived, 
as if they would make reparation for their treatment of him on 
June 24.° 
Evidently about the time that the orders united in Versailles a 
manuscript copy of the king’s letter to the nobility was published 
at the Palais Royal, the center of all agitation and revolutionary 
enthusiasm in Paris. Doubtless to facilitate the spreading of 
the news of the king’s action, the letter is said to have been 
printed immediately. Shortly afterward, it was announced that 
17 Letter of a deputy from Paris, le 27, a minuit; Jefferson, II, 488; Point 
du jour, 1, 67; Bailly, I, 253. Bailly says that immediately after adjourning 
the session, he set out for Chaillot, spreading the news of the union as he 
went. Hence, he was not at home when the crowd in Versailles called to pay 
its respects to him. By his own statement (I, 255-56), the inhabitants of 
Chaillot gave a little féte for him June 28, in his own garden. 
18 Duquesnoy, I, 138-139; Point du jour, I, 67; Jallet, 108; Biauzat, II, 
147. The last says that he was a spectator of the sights in Versailles until 
about seven o’clock, when he left for Paris to spend the recess of the national 
assembly. The same was true of the writer of the letter from Paris, le 27, 
a minuit; Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIV, 30-31; Bailli de 
Virieu, 105. 
19 Boullé, Documents inédits, Revue de la rév., XIV, 31. 
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