s. "For more than
a fortnight," says an eye witness,[2699] "one walked on fragments of
bottles." In the garden, especially, "it might be said that they had
tried to pave the walks with broken glass."--Porters are seen seated on
the throne in the coronation robes; a trollop occupies the Queen's bed;
it is a carnival in which unbridled base and cruel instincts find plenty
of good forage and abundant litter. Runaways come back after the victory
and stab the dead with their pikes. Nicely dressed prostitutes fooling
around with naked corpses.[26100] And, as the destroyers enjoy their
work, they are not disposed to be disturbed in it. In the courts of the
Carrousel, where 1800 feet of building are burning, the firemen try four
times to extinguish the fire; "they are shot at, and threatened with
being pitched into the flames,"[26101] while petitioners appear at
the bar of the Assembly, and announce in a threatening tone that the
Tuileries are blazing, and shall blaze until the dethronement becomes a
law.

The poor Assembly, become Girondist through its late mutilation, strives
in vain to arrest the downhill course of things, and maintain, as it has
just sworn to do, "the constituted authorities";[26102] it strives, at
least, to put Louis XVI. in the Luxembourg palace, to appoint a tutor
for the Dauphin, to keep the ministers temporarily in office, and to
save all prisoners, and those who walk the streets. Equally captive, and
nearly as prostrate as the King himself; the Assembly merely serves as
a recording office for the popular will, that very morning furnishing
evidence of the value which the armed commonalty attaches to its
decrees. That morning murders were committed at its door, in contempt of
its safe conduct; at eight o'clock Suleau and three others, wrested from
their guards, are cut down under its windows. In the afternoon, from
sixty to eighty of the unarmed Swiss still remaining in the church
of the Feuillants are taken out to be sent to the Hotel-de-ville,
and massacred on the way at the Place de Greve. Another detachment,
conducted to the section of the Roule, is likewise disposed of in the
same way.[26103] Carle, at the head of the gendarmerie, is called out
of the Assembly and assassinated on the Place Vendome, and his head is
carried about on a pike. The founder of the old monarchical club, M. de
Clermont-Tonnerre, withdrawn from public life for two years past, and
quietly passing along the streets, is recogni