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only mocked him with, " You have often made promises and failed 

 us ; we no longer believe you ; we want no false oaths. Withdraw 

 the veto ! Give us back the patriotic ministers ! "-^'' 



A national guard, to whom a bottle of wine and a glass had 

 been passed, seeing the king's discomfort, ofifered him a drink. 

 " Sire," he said, " you must be thirsty. . . . Permit me to offer 

 you something. Fear nothing, I am an honest man and you may 

 drink without fear — I will drink first, if you will allow me." The 

 king offered to drink from the same glass. Amidst applause of 

 the crowd, the king cried, " People of Paris, I drink to your health 

 and to that of the French nation ! "'^^ But someone cried out. " It 

 is not enough that he fills himself at the table, he must also fill 

 himself here! " It was said that under other conditions, it would 

 have been considered greatly to the king's credit to have drunk 

 from the same glass that a man of the people drank from, but 

 that now the sans-culoitcs considered such condescension as a 

 hypocritical act and contemptible flattery .-^^ 



The temper of the crowd is plainly seen in an incident told by 

 one of the municipal officers. On entering the chateau, he went 

 to the apartment where the king was and saw a man held by the 

 collar by five or six other persons who were going to put him out. 

 On inquiring, he found that the man's oft"ense was simply that he 

 had cried, "Long live the king!"'-**^ 



=^' Oelsner, loc. cit., LXXXVII, 80. 



^^ Lettre de Blanc-GUli au dcpartement des Bouchcs-dn-Rhonc ; Bourcet 

 in Revolution frangaisc,XYIl,73; Oelsner, /oc. r/f., LXXXVII, 80; Aulard, 

 Societe des Jacobins, IV, 22, report made by an eye witness in the meet- 

 ing of the Jacobin club on the evening of June 20. Oelsner says he did 

 not see the king drink, but he saw the upturned bottle and heard the 

 crowd say that he drank. The account given in the Jacobin Club was by 

 the " blond young man ", who addressed the king while Petion was near. 

 The incident is frequently mentioned by the newspapers and by later 

 writers. Recit general, June 24; Nouvelle correspondance politique, June 

 22, XII, 3; Journal du peuple, June 25, No. 146, p. 581; Journal royalist, 

 June 24, No. S, p. 5; Correspondance secrete inedite sur Louis XVI, Marie 

 Antoinette, la cour et la ville, 1777-1792, Letter of June 23, II, 604. 

 Madame Tourzelle also relates it in her "Recit" of June 22. 



^^ This is the observation of Oelsner. 



*" " Proces-verbal dresse par Hu." 



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