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officers, Borie, Leroux and Jallier, they arrived at the meeting 

 too late to have any part in the adoption of the decree. When 

 Borie expressed his displeasure at seeing the law thus violated 

 Mouchet answered that the circumstances did not permit of any 

 other action."^ The law of March 27, 1791 forbade the munici- 

 pality to act contrary to a decree of the directory."^ After pass- 

 ing this decree, the municipality adjourned and the members were 

 sent by Petion to the various places where the procession was to 

 pass to see that everything passed off in an orderly manner, 

 especially at the assembly and the chateau.^''' 



The commandant, who had been at the city hall awaiting orders 

 since eight o'clock, received a copy of the decree of the municipal 

 corps at eleven-thirty and returned to the headquarters of the na- 

 tional guard where he found contradictory orders from the min- 

 ister of the interior and the directory. The minister of the interior 

 wrote to the directory at nine o'clock, " Without delay give orders 

 to the troops to march to the defense of the chateau." This letter 

 was at once sent to the commandant with an emphatic order from 

 the directory " to lose not an instant " in sending troops to defend 

 the Tuileries. The directory not receiving an answer to this order, 

 because the commandant, as we have seen, was at the Hotel de 

 Ville, sent another order to the headquarters still more explicit, 

 requiring him, or in his absence, the first officer in service to 

 "lend the help of the national guard or to summon troops of the 

 line to assure by all means possible, even by force of arms, the 

 safety of the king and all the royal family.""^ 



The directory of the department sat in continued session on this 



"° " Proces-verbal dresse par Borie." 



"" " Rapport fait au conseil du departement par MM. Garnier. Leveillard 

 •et Demantort," 255. The Revolutions de Paris says (XII, 548) that this 

 decree was wiser than that of the directory. 



^" " Conduite tenue par M. le maire"; "Proces-verbal dresse par MM. 

 Mouchet et Boucher Saint-Saveur " ; "Proces-verbal dresse par Patris;" 

 " Proces-verbal dresse par Boucher Rene ; " " Proces-verbal dresse par 

 Hu." 



"' Terrier to the directory, June 20, 1792, nine o'clock. Directory to the 

 commandant, June 20, 1792, nine o'clock ; Directory to the etat major, 

 June 20, 1792, in Ternaux I, 162. 



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