not have it much longer." From the box of the
_Logographe_ the royal family listened to the most offensive motions;
to decrees according the Marseillais a payment of thirty sous a day,
ordering all statues of kings to be overthrown, and petitions demanding
the heads of all the Swiss who had escaped the massacre. At last the
Assembly grew tired of the long humiliation of the august captives. On
Monday, August 13, they were not present at the session, and during the
day they were notified that in the evening they were to be
incarcerated, not in the Luxembourg,--that palace being too good for
them,--but in the tower of the Temple. When Marie {335} Antoinette was
informed of this decision, she turned toward Madame de Tourzel, and
putting her hands over her eyes, said: "I always asked the Count
d'Artois to have that villanous tower of the Temple torn down; it
always filled me with horror!" Petion told Louis XVI. that the
Communal Council had decreed that none of the persons proposed for the
service of the royal family should follow them to their new abode. By
force of remonstrance the King finally obtained permission that the
Princess de Lamballe, Madame de Tourzel and her daughter should be
excepted from this interdiction, and also MM. Hue and de Chamilly, and
Mesdames Thibaud, Basire, Navarre, and Saint-Brice. The departure for
the Temple took place at five in the evening. The royal family went in
a large carriage with Manuel and Petion, who kept their hats on. The
coachman and footmen, dressed in gray, served their masters for the
last time. National Guards escorted the carriage on foot and with
reversed arms. The passage through a hostile multitude occupied not
less than two hours. The vehicle, which moved very slowly, stopped for
several moments in the Place Vendome. There Manuel pointed out the
statue of Louis XIV., which had been thrown down from its pedestal. At
first the descendant of the great King reddened with indignation, then,
tranquillizing himself instantly, he calmly replied: "It is fortunate,
Sir, that the rage of the people spends itself on inanimate objects."
Manuel might have gone on to say that {336} on this very Place Vendome
"Queen Violet," one of the most furious vixens of the October Days, had
just been crushed by the fall of this equestrian statue of Louis XIV.
to which she was hanging in order to help bring it down. The statue of
Henry IV. in the Place Royale, that of Louis XIII. in