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manege and its court extended between the terrace of the Feuil- 

 lants and the garden of the Tuileries. 



The manege which had been appropriated for the use of the 

 constitutional assembly when it was transferred from Versailles 

 to Paris in 1789. was a building about one hundred fifty feet 

 long standing parallel to the terrace of the Feuillants. Its long, 

 narrow court served as an avenue. It was this court through 

 which the procession would have to pass in order to reach the 

 chateau. The entrance to the manege could be effected at either 

 end of the building, but in order to get the procession out of the 

 end leading to the chateau it must enter the end toward the 

 Feuillants. Since the chateau was the objective point, it is clear 

 why the leaders brought the procession up the rue Saint-Honore 

 as far as the Feuillants. Here they could pass between the 

 buildings of the Feuillants and those of the Capucins which stood 

 next to them. The courts and the gardens of these two monas- 

 teries opened into each other,^-^ About the time that the pro- 

 cession arrived at the Feuillants by the rue Saint-Honore, two 

 municipal officers whom Petion had sent to the vicinity of the 

 Tuileries, Mouchet and Boucher-Saint-Sauveur, learning that the 

 cortege was in the rue Saint-Honore, proceeded to its head. They 

 described it as being headed by sappers, national guards and 

 cannon and dragging with it the wagon upon which the liberty 

 tree was placed. They asked the citizens what they intended to 

 do. They received answer that they were going to the national 

 assembly. When the officers told them that they could not legally 

 enter in such great numbers, they answered that they were going 

 to ask permission and the officers accompanied the leaders to 

 the assembly door.^^° 



The procession as it reached the rue Saint-Honore is thus 

 described by an eyewitness who wrote, almost at the time, for a 

 contemporary newspaper : 



" The faubourgs assembled upon the site of the Bastille, set out in good 

 order about ten o'clock, the tables of the rights of man at their head, 



^^ See map of Paris in 1792. Brette, Histoirc des edifices oii out siege les 

 assemblees; Roederer, Chrouiqiie de eiiujuante jours. 33. 

 '*' Proces-verbal dresse par MM. Mouchet et Boucher Saint-Sauveur. 



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