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four or a quarter before five o'clock, when he says he first learned 

 through an adjutant that the Tuileries had been invaded.^^^ He 

 set out at once, without finishing his dinner, and drove in his car- 

 riage to the chateau. ^^- He took with him his secretary Joseau 

 and the administrator of poHce, Sergent. They descended at the 

 Cour des Princes, the door of which they had reached with great 

 difficuky, and putting on their scarfs, tried to open a passage 

 through the crowd. They found everything much obstructed.'^®^ 

 Here they were joined by INIouchet and Hii, municipal officers, 

 who accompanied them to the apartments of the king.^^* 



^Mouchet had all the afternoon made the greatest efforts to 

 keep the people quiet. He had been at every door that the crowd 

 passed through, had stood beside the king for an hour, and finally, 

 wearied by his fruitless efforts to clear the chateau, says he had 

 gone out an hour before to get refreshments. Hii had also been 

 out of the chateau for two hours, he tells us, to assist in rendering 

 justice to several men who had been arrested at the chateau and 

 carried to the police station near by.-^^^ 



, The progress of the municipal officers to the royal apartments 

 was slow, the crowd being so dense that it was necessar}^ to 

 address them and urge them to make room. Petion reminded 



the president of the committee of surveillance of the national assembly 

 calling attention to the fact that he had been informed of disturbances 

 occurring in the south of France. Archives nationales, F', 4590. 



■'" The note signed by three members of the council, Aug. de Bourge 

 (notable), J. Hirmet, and Marie, asking for instructions because the 

 danger was pressing, is dated at four-thirty p. m. (Ternaux, I, 208). If 

 this was Petion's first information of the invasion of the chateau then he 

 acted on the information as soon as he could. But Sergent in his 

 proces-verbal states that he returned to the mayoralty at four o'clock and 

 had heard it said that the people filled the chateau from top to bottom. 

 He must have told Petion this because he left the mayoralty at three o'clock 

 to get information. " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent." 



""" " Conduite tenue par M. le maire." 



■"^ " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent " ; " Conduite tenue par M. le 

 maire." 



"■" Mouchet refers to this court as the Cour Royale. The two courts 

 were separated by a wall. 



■"•"'Proces-verbal dresse par Mouchet"; "Proces-verbal dresse par Hu." 



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