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his conduct during the day. It was now ten o'clock and the 

 courts and gardens of the chateau were silent.^"^ 

 - The constituted authorities plainly feared a repetition of the 

 day's events on the morrow and so took precautions to prevent it 

 before they retired that night. Petion wrote to the commandant 

 at ten o'clock : " It is reported, ]\I. le commandant, that the 

 citizens are going to the Tuileries tomorrow. I avow that I do 

 not believe it, but as it is not permissible to neglect a matter of 

 this importance, I ask you to bring an imposing force, to estab- 

 lish patrols, in a word to take every precaution for safety."^"® At 

 half past ten the directory of the department met and passed the 

 following decree : " Ordered that the mayor and municipality of 

 Paris do insure, by all the means the law has put into their power, 

 security and public peace, especially the safety of the king, the 

 royal family and the chateau of the Tuileries. "^^° They then 

 wrote to Petion asking him to come to the directory at nine o'clock 

 in the morning with some municipal officers to arrange with them 

 measures to be taken to insure public order for the day.^^^ At 

 eleven o'clock, Terrier, the minister of the interior, wrote to the 

 directory : " I ask you, gentlemen, in the name of the king, to come 

 to the Tuileries to arrange with us some means of insuring order 

 this night."^^- He wrote another letter showing his fears for the 

 morrow and said, " I learn, gentlemen, that the same gathering 

 which occurred today is going to form tomorrow. I ask you in 

 the name of the country to use all means which the law has en- 

 trusted to you to maintain order and prevent the deadly occur- 

 rence with which we have been threatened today."^^^ It appears 



** " Conduit tenue par M. le maire " ; Proccs-verhaux of Hii, Sergent, 

 Leroux, and Champion; report of Montjourdan at eleven-thirty p. m., 

 June 20, in Archives nationales, C 222, 160"". 



^ Petion to the commandant, June 20, 1792, ten p. m., in Archives 

 nationales, F'4774™. 



""Deliberations of the directory, ten-thirty p. m., in Revue retrospective, 

 2 serie, I, 177. 



^■^ Directory to Petion in Archives nationales, F'4774"°. 



'*" Terrier to the director}-, June 20, eleven p. m., in Revue retrospective, 

 2 serie, I, 190. 



^"Terrier to the directory, June 20, 1792, in Archives nationales, 



F4774". 



