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national assembly arrived at the chateau and this opened the way 

 for new crowds of people.^^^ 



The deputation was led by the deputy, Brunck, who addressed 

 the king. He said that the national assembly had sent twenty- 

 four of its members to assure itself of the state of his person, to 

 protect his constitutional liberty and to share his dangers if there 

 were any. The king answered that he was cognizant of and 

 grateful for the solicitude of the assembly, but that he was in the 

 midst of the people and had no fear, and that his conscience was 

 clear.-^* Meantime the crowd moved slowly on, showing every- 

 where the greatest respect for the representatives of the people 

 and for the municipal officers. -^° Pction was now most energetic 

 in his efforts, moving from apartment to apartment, urging the 

 people to pass on. Municipal officers formed lines of national 

 guards in the hall through which the people could pass out. With 

 the help of some officers of the law who carried ivory batons, 

 the municipal officers soon had the space around the king cleared 

 once more.-^" Urged by the deputies to retire within his apart- 

 ments the king accepted the suggestion which he seems to have 

 refused twice before.-^"^ He was then surrounded by the deputies 



^Ibid.; "Declaration de Fontaine"; " Proces-verbal dresse par Cham- 

 pion." 



^'"Declaration de Fontaine"; report made by Brunck and Lejosne to 

 the assembly the same evening in Journal de I'assemblee nationalc, XXI, 

 339; Journal des dcbats ct dccrcts, No. 268, p. 283; Monitcur, XII, 719. 



^Reports made in the assembly by Lejosne, Dalloz and another member 

 whose name is not given; Journal de I'assemblee nationale, XXI, 339 ff. ; 

 Journal dcs dcbats ct dccrcts, No. 268, p. 284 ff. ; Monitcur, 719; "Declara- 

 tion de J. J. Leroux"; proccs-verbaux of Champion, Hu, and Sergent. 



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

 Patris " ; " Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent." Sergent says these men 

 were Dorival and Dossonville. Aulard, Societe des Jacobins, IV, 23. The 

 " blond young man " who reported this incident in the Jacobin Club said 

 that these men with ivory batons said verj- politely to the people, " Re- 

 spect the law ! " 



"""Proces-verbal dresse par Sergent"; report of Lejosne in the assem- 

 bly referred to above. Fontaine in his "Declaration" says that Aclocq 

 proposed this to the king. It is probable that all urged the king to with- 

 draw. According to their own declarations both Mouchet and Hu had 



