l of the First Consul);

3. The King's Antechamber (the future Salon d'Apollon);

4. The State Bedchamber (the future Throne-room);

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5. The King's Grand Cabinet (called later the Salon of Louis XIV.);

6. The Gallery of Diana.

There are a battalion and two companies of gendarmes in the palace, as
well as the guards then on duty and those they had relieved. But as no
orders are given to these troops, they either break their ranks or
fraternize with the enemy. No obstacle, no resistance, is offered, and
nobody defends the apartments. The assailants, who have taken a cannon
as far as the first story, enter the Hall of the Hundred Swiss, whose
doors are neither locked nor barricaded. They penetrate into the Hall
of the Guards with the same ease. But when they try to make their way
into the OEil-de-Boeuf, or King's Antechamber, the locked door of this
apartment arrests their progress. This exasperates them, and one of
the panels is soon broken.

Where is Louis XVI. when the invasion begins? In his bedroom with his
family. It communicates with the Grand Cabinet, and has windows
commanding a view of the garden. M. Acloque, chief of the second
legion of the National Guard, and a faithful royalist, hastens to the
King by way of the little staircase leading from the Princes' Court to
the royal chamber, in order to tell him what has happened. He finds
the door locked; he knocks, gives his name, urgently demands
admittance, and obtains it. He advises Louis XVI. to show himself to
the people. {200} The King, whom no peril has ever frightened, does
not hesitate to follow this advice. The Queen wishes to accompany her
husband; but she is opposed in this and forcibly drawn into the
Dauphin's chamber, which is near that of Louis XVI. Happier than the
Queen,--these are her own words,--Madame Elisabeth finds nobody to tear
her from the King. She takes hold of the skirts of her brother's coat.
Nothing could separate them.

Louis XVI. passes into the Great Cabinet, thence into the State
Bedchamber, and through it into the OEil-de-Boeuf, where he will
presently receive the crowd. He is surrounded at this moment by Madame
Elisabeth, three of his ministers (MM. de Beaulieu, de Lajard, and
Terrier de Montciel), the old Marshal de Mouchy, Chevalier de Canolle,
M. d'Hervilly, M. Guinguerlet, lieutenant-colonel of the unmounted
gendarmes, and M. de Vainfrais, also an officer of gendarmes. Some
grenadiers of