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as the crowd began to cross the apartments, Santerre entered and 

 took his place beside her, at her right. She seemed disturbed at 

 first. Addressing her, he told her that she deceived herself; that 

 the people wished her no harm ; that if she desired it, there was 

 not one of them who would not love her as much as her child 

 did ; he begged her to save France and assured her that she had 

 nothing to fear. He then assumed the role of her protector while 

 the crowd passed.-^'' He ordered the guard to make room so that 

 the people might enter and see the queen and as they passed he 

 urged them on. 



A woman in the procession offered Wittinghof a red cap, which 

 he gave to the queen. She put it on her head and then on the 

 head of the prince royal. -^' After a quarter of an hour Santerre, 

 pitying the child's discomfort, said to his mother, " Take the cap 

 off of the child, it is too warm." All this time, he kept urging 

 the people to pass on, saying to them, " Look at the queen ! Look 

 at the prince royal ! "-°^ A woman in the procession stopped 

 before the queen and, looking at her, began to weep. Santerre 

 pushed her on, saying she was drunk. ""^ The queen remained 

 throughout this ordeal remarkably calm and courageous. ^°° 



Several municipal officers now entered the room where the 



"Lettre de J. B. Mosneron" in Revue d'histotre moderne et contempo- 

 raine, XI, 115. Romainvilliers says (" Eclaircissement a demander a M. 

 le commandant-general") that he sent a detachment of guards to the 

 queen and himself watched her, but no one else mentions this. See also 

 Report of Santerre to the mayor, Ternaux, I, 415. 



^^^ " Extrait du rapport fait par Santerre au maire," in Ternaux, I, 415 ; ^ 

 Oelsner in Revue historique, LXXXVII, 84; "Declaration de Leclerc." 



^" " Rapport de Mandat " ; " Rapport de Lagard " ; " Recit de Madame 

 Tourzelle " ; " Declaration de Leclerc " ; " Deposition de Rougeville." The 

 first three witnesses say that Santerre entered before the hat was pre- 

 sented; the other two say he entered afterward. The last two are the 

 only ones who speak of Wittinghof giving the red hat to the queen. The 

 others say some one gave it to her or a woman gave it to her. 



** " Rapport de Mandat " ; " Rapport de Lagard " ; " Deposition de 

 Rougeville." 



^"""Rapport de Mandat." In the declarations made before the justice 

 of the peace of the section Roi de Sicile, two of Mussey's subordinates 

 refer to a woman who was probably this one. Cuvillier says she was 



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