94 Laura B. Pfciffcr 



close it. They were insulted and ill treated. Pinon cried, " Are 

 you sure that there will not be some one in the crowd capable 

 of attacking' the king?" But the cannoneers answered, "It is 

 better that one man should be killed than we."^^" The adjutant 

 general of the fourth legion, Lagarde, called to his grenadiers at 

 the windows of the hall of guards, and cried, " To arms ! " but 

 they refuscil to obey antl passed out of the bniUliiig by another 

 door.^»" 



The crowd advanced with such violence that the cannon of 

 ^'al-^.le-(l^aco was carrieil on into tlie chateau and up the stairs 

 as far as the hall of the Swiss, but here it was caught in the door- 

 way and obstructed the passage. The crowd became impatient and 

 furious when municipal officers (Boucher-Rene and Mouchet) 

 reproaching the cannoneers for their zeal, ordered that the frame 

 be cut away and the cannon was carried back to the foot of the 

 stairs, where it remained till the chateau was evacuated. I'oucher- 

 Rene says he told the people that their violence would undo all 

 the effect of their petition to the king.^'*^ There was no resistance 

 now against the crowd, not a man for defense, not a national 

 guard at his post, not a door barricaded or locked. The gend- 

 armes in the court remained quiet spectators of the invasion and 

 after the crowd had etUered the chateau, the gendarmes in the 

 Carrousel raised their hats on their swords crying, '' ]'li\- la 

 nation l"^"- 



The crowd pushed througli two aixirtments and to the door of 

 the third called the aul-dc-bwuf. Aclocq, chief of the second legion 

 of national guards, says that on seeing the situation he rushed 

 to the king's chamber by the stairway of the Cour des Princes, 

 at the same time asking Boivins, adjutant general of the fourth 



■** " Rapport de Pinon." 



"* Lagarde, " Rapport de I'evenement." 



'" Saint-Prix, " Rapport de ce qui s'est passe dans le bataillon du Val-de- 

 Grace " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Boucher-Rene '' ; " Proccs-verbal 

 dresse par Mouchet '' ; Proces-verbal dresse par Borie." 



^"'" Roederer, 45 ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Patris " ; Bourcet in Rc:-o!u- 

 tion fraii(aise XVII, 73; ''Deposition de Rougeville"; Montmorin to La 

 Marck June 21, 1792. Rougeville relates that at this moment he met 

 Romainvilliers, pale and distracted, crying. " All is lost ! we are betrayed !" 



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