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morning and kept up constant communication with the minister 

 of the interior, the chateau and the assembly. The minister of the 

 interior was as much concerned as the directory in the keeping of 

 the peace. He was a man of firmness of character and of royahst 

 sympathies. ^°° We saw that he wrote a letter to the directory 

 at half past two on the morning of the 19th and received a reply 

 and that at six o'clock and at seven the directory sent him dis- 

 patches. At eight o'clock he wrote to the king rendering him an 

 account of what was happening and assured him that he would 

 come to his assistance. "° At the same hour he wrote two letters 

 to the directory applauding their action and saying that the king 

 wished that any attempt to enter the chateau should be resisted.^" 

 At nine o'clock he dispatched the order which we have seen above 

 to the directory for the commandant and received their reply. ^^^ 

 At eleven o'clock he again wrote the directory saying that the 

 king desired two members of the department to come to the 

 Tuileries to report the state of the city and to take precautionary 

 measures. ^^^ 



The legislative assembly met about noon on the 20th, but did 

 not turn its attention at first, as might have been expected, to a 

 consideration of the threatened uprising. After some other busi- 

 ness had been brought before it, the president announced that 

 the directory of the department wished to be admitted."* The 

 directory had shown great interest in trying to prevent the pro- 

 cession and had been in session since four o'clock in the morning, 

 as we have seen, adjourning to attend the assembly as soon as 



"' Mercy to Kaunitz, June 27, 1792, Glagau, Die fransdsische Legislative, 



339. 



""Terrier to Louis XVI, June 20, 1792, eight o'clock, in Archives Na- 

 tionales, C 185. 



"^Terrier to the directory, June 20, 1792, eight o'clock in Rapport du 

 ministre de I'interieur. 



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

 Terrier, June 20, 1792, in Rapport du ministre de I'interieur. 



"^ Terrier to the directory, June 20, 1792, eleven o'clock a. m. in Revue 

 retrospective, 2. serie, I, 170. 



"* Moniteur, XII, 711; Journal des debats et decrets, No. 267, p. 263; 

 Proccs-verbal de Vassemhlee nationale, 376. 



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