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sec the little [jrince, who was playful and charming. Some of 

 the aristocratic deputies flattered the king and queen, but the 

 patriotic deputies made objection to this. The king spoke kindly 

 of the people and made no complaint. At about ten o'clock, they 

 all retired, leaving the family alone.^'"^ 



Petion, who had left the king when the deputation from the 

 assembly arrived, continued to make the greatest efforts to clear 

 the chateau. Carried on the shoulders of two grenadiers, he 

 urged the crowd on the stairway, in the vestibule and in the 

 courts, in the name of the law, to follow him, remaining at the 

 principal door until all had passed out. He was ably seconded 

 by the municipal ofificers, Sergent, Leroux, Hu, Patris, Mouchet 

 and Champion. These formed lines of guards to prevent new 

 crowds entering, urged the people in the name of the law to go 

 out, and their efforts added to the zeal and energy of the mayor 

 were effective. The people everywhere passed on without resist- 

 ance.''^' 



It was still a question of clearing the courts and the garden and 

 closing the gate. Sergent and Hii with some national guards 

 succeeded in this with little effort and closed and guarded the 

 gates.. Petion with Sergent, Hu and Leroux, returned to the 

 apartments to see that no stragglers remained. Finding all was 

 well, Petion went to the national assembly to give an account of 



^ Lettre de Ph-Ch-Ai Goupilleau; Letter of Azema in Revolution 

 frangaise, XXVII, 172; Lettre d'un depute, etc., Blanc-Gilli. Azema says 

 that in the conversation the king showed a remarkable memory for inci- 

 dents and persons and details of the afternoon's events. He says he spoke 

 of Santerre and of Theroinge. Theroinge is mentioned as being in the 

 crowd by the Nouvelle correspondance politique, XII, 2; Varenne, His- 

 toire particuliere, also says she was in the crowd this day but neither of 

 these state that she was in the chateau. Theroinge was a well known revo- 

 lutionary character, a very beautiful woman of the demi-monde. One 

 authority, a police report found in Archives nationales, ^4387, states that 

 she was in the crowd on the 20th and that she did not cease to provoke 

 the people to support the project of the faubourgs. The report is signed, 

 Minot. 



"""Conduit tenue par M. le maire"; Declarations of J. J. Leroux and 

 Legrand, made to the justice of the peace of the section Roi de Sicile; 

 Proces-verbaux of Sergent, Patris, Hti, Mouchet, and Champion. 



