ed. The
crowd passes quickly before these battalions. Some of the guards unfix
their bayonets; others present arms, as if to do honor to the riot.
Having passed through the garden, the columns of the people go out
through the gate before the Pont-Royal. They pass up the quay, and
through the Louvre wickets, and so into the Place Carrousel, which is
cut up by a multitude of streets, a sort of covered ways very suitable
to facilitate the attack.

Certain municipal officers make some slight efforts to quiet the
assailants; others, on the contrary, do what they can to embolden and
excite them. The four battalions at the entrance of the Carrousel, and
the two companies of gendarmes posted before the door of the Royal
Court, make no resistance. The rioters, who have invaded the
Carrousel, find their march obstructed by the closing of this door.
Santerre and Saint-Huruge, who had been the last to leave the National
Assembly, make their appearance, {197} raging with anger. They rail at
the people for not having penetrated into the palace. "That is all we
came for," say they. Santerre, before the door of the Royal Court--one
of the three courtyards in front of the palace, opposite the
Carrousel--summons his cannoneers. "I am going," he cries, "to open
the doors with cannon-balls."

Some royalist officers of the National Guard seek vainly to defend the
palace. No one heeds them. The door of the Royal Court opens its two
leaves. The crowd presses through. No more dike to the torrent; the
gendarmes set their caps on the ends of their sabres, and cry: "Live
the nation!" The thing is done; the palace is invaded.

{198}

XIX.

THE INVASION OF THE TUILERIES.

It is nearly four o'clock in the afternoon. The invasion of the
Tuileries is beginning. Let us glance at the palace and get a notion
of the apartments through which the crowd are about to rush. On
approaching it by way of the Carrousel, one comes first to three
courtyards: that of the Princes, in front of the Pavilion of Flora; the
Royal Court, before the Pavilion of the Horloge; and the Swiss Court,
before the Pavilion of Marsan. The assailants enter by the Royal
Court, pass into the palace through the vestibule of the Horloge
Pavilion, and climb the great staircase. On the left of this are the
large apartments of the first story:--

1. The Hall of the Hundred Swiss (the future Hall of the Marshals);

2. The Hall of the Guards (the future Hal