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and even, " Long live the king ! "--* A guard who stood beside 

 Louis X\'I says that threats were uttered against the king should 

 he refuse to put the hberty cap on and threats of returning daily 

 if he did not sign the decrees. But a municipal officer who was 

 also present states that he did not think, judging from the disposi- 

 tion of the crowd, that if the king had not reached for the hat or 

 been impressed with the idea of putting it on, that it would have 

 been forced upon him.^-^ INIouchet says that a few minutes after 

 this incident the king pointed out to him a woman who held 

 a sword encircled with flowers and surmounted with ribbons. 

 Mouchet signaled to her and she passed it on. He handed it to the 

 king, who took it and brandished it amid enthusiastic cries of 

 " Long live the nation ! " The king repeated this cry. Then fol- 

 lowed more cries for the recall of the veto and of the three 

 ministers.--® The king made several attempts to speak, assuring 

 the crowd that he had sworn to maintain the constitution and 

 that he was sincerely attached to it.—^ 



The crowd was still pressing in, cries succeeded cries, and the 

 heat was extreme. Insulting language and abusive names were 

 hurled at the king and threats were made to return daily, if he 

 did not recall the veto.--® The guards were continually forcing 

 back individuals who were trying to reach the king. A pock- 

 marked individual, wearing a brown frock coat, armed with pistol 

 and saber, kept crying, ''Down with the veto! To the devil 

 with the veto ! " Another man dressed as a national guard, wear- 

 ing yellow epaulets, and armed with a gim, menaced all who 



^ " Proces-verbal dresse par ]Mouchet " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par 

 Patris " ; " Declaration de Fontaine " ; " Declaration de Guibout " ; " Decla- 

 ration de Bidaut"; Bourcet in Revolution frangaise, XVII, 73. It is inter- 

 esting to note in this connection that Joly and Drouet, gnards with the 

 king, but who wrote their accounts twenty-five years later, both claim the 

 honor of having taken the red hat from the pole and handing it to the king. 

 Drouet, Note sur les evenements de la jouniee du 20 jv,\n, 1792; Toly, 

 Note historique sur la journee du 20 juin, 1792. 



*-* " Declaration de Bidaut " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Patris." 



-^ " Proces-verbal dresse par Mouchet." 



^ Ibid.; "Proces-verbal dresse par Patris." 



■^ Oelsner in Rezue historique, LXXXMI, So; "Declaration de Bidaut." 



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