120 Laura B. Pfciffer 



The guards outside made vigorous resistance for about an hour 

 against the crowd that struck the doors and uttered menaces and 

 itisuhs against the (|ueen. The people were determined to reach 

 her apartments and in the struggle one of the captains of grena- 

 diers, Lasue, was wounded. Seeing the nselcssness of resistance, 

 the commandant of the Tuileries, T>ieutonant General Wittinghof 

 ordered the doors opened and the crowd rushed in. Once in the 

 aparlments, thccrowil showed great curiosity, overturning screens, 

 forcing doors, rummaging beds, and at the same time uttering 

 oaths and menaces againsl ihe (pieen. -"•'•' 



When it became evident that the people were determined to 

 see the ([ucen, she was taken into the council chamber of the king 

 through which the procession must pass in descending to the court. 

 r>et\veen the a'il-dc-ba'iif and the council chamber was the state 

 bedchamber through which the crowd jiasscd.-"* With her were 

 Madame Elizabeth who had come to join her, the prince, his 

 sister and several ladies of the com"t, among them Madame Tour- 

 zolle and the I'riiiccsse do 1 .amballo. Lieutenant General ^^Mt- 

 tiughof. Lajard, minister ol war, ami Lliambonas, minister of 

 foreign aflairs, were also beside her. The queen and her com- 

 panions had been placed in a window recess behind the large 

 council (able in front of which there were two rows of grenadiers 

 of the bllles-Saiut-Thomas, commanded bv Mandat."^^ As soon 



was writtoti lator tliaii Juno 23d and, being ver}' similar to that of Rouge- 

 villo, I assume it is drawn from him. See also " Bulletin avec details sur 

 ce qui s'ost passe aux Tuilleries le 20 juin, 1792," in Klinckowstrom, II, 

 303; "Bulletin de ce qui s'est passe aux Tuilleries le 20 juin, 1792," dated 

 June 21, Klinckowstrom, II, 307. 



"■^"Deposition dc Rougeyille"; Madame Tourzcllo, " Rccit," in the 

 Archives nationalcs, C 222, No. I6o"'^ Paroy in his Mcinoircs says tlie 

 queen first sent the little dauphin to the apartments of Madame Mackan, 

 who lived just under the roof, by Hue, his z'alct dc cluiiiibrc, but in her 

 excitement called him back before he got there and then she fainted. 



"" Declarations of Mussey, Turot, and Jaladon. 



'" Guibout says in his " Declaration " that the people cried, " Is this the 

 bed of the great Veto? Monsieur Veto has a more beautiful bed than we 

 have. Where is the great W^to? " etc. 



"'"Rapport de Mandat " ; "Rapport de Lagard"; "Deposition de 

 Rougeville " ; "Declaration l\c Loolerc " ; "Declaration de Guingerlot " ; 



