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individuals who conld be easily counted."^ One little incident 

 disturbed the march for a moment. A street vender selling tri- 

 colored bands v^ath the word constitution upon them dropped them 

 and for a minute it was thought they were thrown from the 

 window of the chateau. Through the efforts of Patris, a munic- 

 ipal officer, the goods were restored to the owner and the agita- 

 tion subsided.^"'* As the procession passed before the battalions, 

 ranged on the terrace, some persons requested the guard to 

 remove their bayonets. Several did so and others refused, all 

 probably acting according to their sympathies. "■'"' 



Seeing the cortege passing out by the gate of the Pont Royal 

 to the c^uay beyond, it was believed, both in the chateau and by 

 the spectators outside, that the crowd would disperse and go to 

 their homes. So apparent did this seem that some of the 

 municipal officers left the scence. Desmousseaux went home and 

 Cousin went to the Academy of Sciences to which he belonged. 

 Champion took Borie and Leroux home with him to dinner.^^^ 



But the crowd instead of continuing its march along the quay 



of the Louvre stopped when it reached the gate of the Louvre, 



■ called also the gate of the Carrousel. On each side of this large 



gate there was a small gate. These were known as the new gates 



and the one on the side of the chateau was called the Porte 



"'"Declaration du chef de la sixieme legion" [De La Chesnaye;] 

 " Proces-verbal dresse par M. Borie;" " Proces-verbal dresse par M. 

 Hu;" "Proces-verbal dresse par M. Patris;" "Declaration de J. J. 

 Leroux." Leroux, upon whose account alone Ternaux bases his statement, 

 says the cries were, " Long live the sans-culottes ", " Down with the King ", 

 " Down with the Queen " and that there were heard the greatest insults, 

 menacing talk and frightful threats but he is not supported in this state- 

 ment by any other witness. Yet in addition to this he says that the great 

 mass of the crowd was peaceable and had no bad intentions. Leroux was 

 one of the municipal officers who were not summoned to the mayor's 

 office early enough to vote on the municipal decree of the morning and 

 was not one of the men that Petion had officially sent to the Tuileries. 

 His attitude is not sympathetic toward the crowd. 



m " Proces-verbal dresse par Patris ;" " Proces-verbal dresse par Hii." 



'" " Proces-verbal dresse par Mouchet." 



"" " Declaration du sieur Desmousseaux ;" " Proces-verbal dresse par 

 Champion;" " Proces-verbal dresse par Borie;" "Proces-verbal dresse par 

 Leroux." 



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