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Petion continued his efforts to start the crowd moving. Munic- 

 ipal officers succeeded in forming a double line of national 

 guards between which the people could file and so could be 

 directed away from the entrance to the apartments.^" At the 

 suggestion of Sergent and Hu the king ordered the apartments 

 to be opened so that the people could pass out by the gallery. 

 Petion, still mounted on a chair, announced the orders given by 

 the king to the effect that the procession should go out on the 

 side of the corridor, repeated what he had said to the people 

 before and continued to urge them to retire.-'^ Sergent then 

 spoke, but it was difficult to hear him because everybody spoke 

 at once. He took off his scarf and displaying it in his hands, 

 asked the people in the name of this emblem of the law to retire. 

 In his efforts he was seconded by Patris and Champion, who 

 threw themselves into the crowd and urged the people in the name 

 of the law to retire.-^'^^ Slowly the crowd began to move out 

 between the lines of guards. As they moved along, there were 

 cries of " Recall the ministers ! Down with the veto ! Sanction 

 the decrees ! Long live the nation ! "^^'* And as they passed 

 Petion, cries of " Long live Petion ! " were heard and the mayor 

 saluted the crowd as it retired.^^^ 



The object of the mayor and municipal officers had been to 

 relieve the pressure around the king so that he might pass into his 

 apartments. Guards had already been placed at the lower door 

 and in the halls with orders to let no more people enter. ^^^ g^^^. 

 just at this time the first deputation that had been sent out by the 



'"'^ " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent"; " Proces-verbal dresse par 

 Patris " ; " Declaration de Fontaine." 



^* " Declaration de Fontaine " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent " ; 

 " Proces-verbal dresse par Hii." 



"" Proces-verbaux of S^gent, Champion, and Hu; " Conduite tenue par 

 M. le maire." 



^*° " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent"; "Proces-verbal dresse par Hu." 



^" " Declaration de Fontaine " ; " Extrait d'une lettre ecrite de Paris, 

 21 juin a Dupin et fils a MontpelHer " in Revue historique de la revolution 

 frangaise, II, S97- 



^^ " Declaration de J. J. Leroux " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent." 



