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Lasource was angered at the suggestion that the king was in 

 danger and stated that the fears for the king's personal safety 

 were falsely founded ; that the people had been in full possession 

 of the persons of both the king and the prince and had done them 

 no violence ; and that the deputations were sent, not to show that 

 the assembly feared for the king's safety, but to show its interest in 

 him. He suggested that it was an insult to the French people 

 to express fear for the personal safety of the royal family. His 

 speech was often interrupted by applause and murmurs. 



Isnard now entered and gave an account of all that had 

 occurred in the palace up to the time of the entrance of the first 

 deputation. It is clear from the way in which the reports were 

 received that the Left was unwilling to admit that the king was 

 in danger or that he was being insulted. Any suggestions of the 

 kind were received by them with murnmrs and other marks of 

 impatience.-^^ 



Meanwhile the crowd in and around the Tuileries increased 

 constantly. It had grown much larger since it left the assembly, 

 being swollen by onlooking men, women and children, all anxious 

 to see what passed in the interior of the chateau. -^"^ Among the 

 throng in the garden of the Tuileries one observer noticed an 

 individual attired in light blue with white embroidered waistcoat 

 and curled and powdered hair. It was IManuel, the procureur de 



^Journal des debats et dccrcts, No. 268, 281 ff . ; Journal de I'assemblce 

 nationale, XXI, 335 ff.; Monitcur, XII, 719. 



'^^ Isnard in his report to the assembly, Journal de I'assemblce nationale, 

 XXI, 2,Z7'y Journal des debats et decrets, No, 268, p. 283; Moniteur, XII, 

 719. Turgan, in the same meeting, reported that he turned thirty thousand 

 people back on the stairway.- Four different accounts written by eye wit- 

 nesses but unsigned estimate the crowd in and around the Tuileries at 

 twenty, thirty, forty and fifty thousand. KUnckowstrom, II, 307 ; " Extrait 

 d'une lettre ecrite de Paris en datte du 21 juin a Dupin et fils a Mont- 

 pellier," in Revue historique de la revolution frangaisc, II, 597; Letter 

 unsigned quoted in Weber, Mcmoires, II, 187; KUnckowstrom, II, 303. 

 Inside the chateau the crowd is estimated by two witnesses at two thou- 

 sand and seven or eight thousand. Bourcet in Revolution frangaise,X\ll, 

 75, and \\'ittinghof in liis declaration before the justice of the peace quoted 

 in Ternaux, I, 404. 



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