reached the
cell of Louis XVI. The King was still in bed, with his head covered by
a coarse cloth. He looked tenderly at his faithful servant. M. Hue,
who could scarcely speak for sobbing, apprised his unhappy master of
the tragic death of several persons whom His Majesty was especially
fond of, among others, the Chevalier d'Allonville, who had been
under-governor to the first Dauphin, and several officers of the
bedchamber: MM. Le Tellier, Pallas, and de Marchais. "I have, at
least," said Louis XVI., "the consolation of seeing you saved from this
massacre!"

All night long, Madame Elisabeth, the Princess de Lamballe, and Madame
de Tourzel had prayed and wept in silence at the door of the chamber
where Marie Antoinette watched beside her sleeping children. It was
not until morning, after cruel insomnia, that the wretched Queen was at
last able to close her eyes. And when, after a few minutes, she opened
them again, what an awakening!

At eight o'clock in the morning Mademoiselle Pauline de Tourzel arrived
at the Feuillants. "I cannot say enough," she writes in her _Souvenirs
de Quarante {332} Ans_, "about the goodness of the King and Queen; they
asked me many questions about the persons concerning whom I could give
them any tidings. Madame and the Dauphin received me with touching
signs of affection; they embraced me, and Madame said: 'My dear
Pauline, do not leave us any more!'" The courtiers of misfortune came
one after another. Madame Campan and her sister, Madame Auguie, saw
the Prince de Poix, M. d'Aubier, M. de Saint-Pardou, Madame Elisabeth's
equerry, MM. de Goguelat, Hue, and de Chamilly in the first cell; in
the second they found the King. They wanted to kiss his hand, but he
prevented it, and embraced them without speaking. In the third cell
they saw the Queen, waited on by an unknown woman. Marie Antoinette
held out her arms. "Come!" she cried; "come, unhappy women! come and
see one who is still more unhappy than you, since it is she who has
been the cause of all your sorrow!" She added: "We are ruined. We
have reached the place at last to which they have been leading us for
three years by every possible outrage; we shall succumb in this
horrible revolution, and many others will perish after us. Everybody
has contributed to our ruin: the innovators like fools, others like the
ambitious, in order to aid their own fortunes; for the most furious of
the Jacobins wanted gold and places, and the