The Uprising of June 20, i/p2 89 



faubourg Saint-Marcel, gave the order to the captain of can- 

 noneers to go with his two cannon and his artillerymen to the 

 Place du Carrousel, which was no part of the royal courts, and 

 from there join the procession upon the quay after it had passed 

 out of the Tuileries garden. They had been admitted without 

 resistance into the Carrousel.'"^ Alexandre had sent his cannon 

 to the same place also, to await in front of the Hotel de Longue- 

 ville the march of the crowd through the assembly.^^- Perhaps 

 the absence of these cannon induced the officers to give the un- 

 usual order to allow all armed persons to enter the Carrousel, to 

 which reference has been made. 



The Carrousel was soon filled, it being a small place in 1792, 

 and much encumbered with buildings. It bordered on the courts 

 which extended the entire length of the rear of the chateau. 

 There were three of these courts, separated by walls seven or 

 eight feet high. The one in the middle was called the Cour 

 Royale, that on the side of the river the Cour des Princes and 

 that on the side of the rue Saint-Honore the Cour des Suisses.^"'' 

 Sentinels were stationed in the watch towers of the Royal gate 

 about noon, with orders to let no one enter except by card and to 

 allow no crowd to gather before the gate. About an hour later the 

 order was changed to allow no one to enter with or without cards. 

 At once, three municipal officers presented themselves at the gate 

 asking admission. The guards refused, but immediately some one 

 from the chateau let them in.^'* The crowd seemed confused, 

 but peaceable and showed no signs of entering the chateau. 

 They had crossed the Carrousel to the rue Saint-Nicaise as if to 

 go out by the rue Saint-Honore. Colonel Rulhiere who had been 

 stationel with two squadrons of gendarmerie in front of the 



'""Rapport de Saint-Prix"; "Declaration de LaChesneye." Oelsner 

 in Revue historique, LXXXVII, 81. 



'" " Rapport d'Alexandre." The reports of Saint-Prix and Alexandre 

 indicate that the Hotel de Longueville was a general rendezvous for 

 artillery. See also " Proces-verbal dresse par Mouchet." 



'"See map in Brette, 159; also, Berty, Topographic historique du vietix 

 Paris, I, 280, and large map at end of volume. 



"* " Rapport de Pierre Moiteaux " ; " Rapport de Jean Foret " ; " Declar- 

 ation de Bron," Swiss guard at the Royal gate. 



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