by a bourgeois of Paris, an eye-witness (1822).]

[Footnote 2683: Barbaroux, "Memoires," 69. "Everything betokened victory
for the court if the king had never left his post... If he had shown
himself, if he had mounted on horseback the battalions of Paris would
have declared for him."]

[Footnote 2684: "Revolution de Paris," number for Aug. 11, 1792. "The
10th of August, 1792, is still more horrible than the 24th of August,
1572, and Louis XVI. a greater monster than Charles IX. "--"Thousands
of torches were found in cellars, apparently placed there to burn down
Paris at a signal from this modern Nero." In the number for Aug.18: "The
place for Louis Nero and for Medicis Antoinette is not in the towers of
the Temple; their heads should have fallen from the guillotine on the
night of the 10th of August." (Special details of a plan of the king
to massacre all patriot deputies, and intimidate Paris with a grand
pillaging and by keeping the guillotine constantly at work.) "That
crowned ogre and his Austrian panther."]

[Footnote 2685: Narrative of the Minister Joly (written four days after
the event). The king departs about half-past eight.--Cf. Madame Campan,
"Memoires," and Moniteur, XIII. 378.]

[Footnote 2686: "Revolution de Paris," number for Aug. 18. On his way
a sans-culotte steps out in front of the rows and tries to prevent the
king from proceeding. The officer of the guard argues with him, upon
which he extends his hand to the king, exclaiming: "Touch that hand,
bastard, and you have shaken the hand of an honest man! But I have no
intention that your bitch of a wife goes with you to the Assembly; we
don't want that whore."--"Louis XVI," says Prudhomme, "kept on his way
without being upset by the with this noble impulse."--I regard this as a
masterpiece of Jacobin interpretation.]

[Footnote 2687: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 311, 325. The king, at the foot
of the staircase, had asked Roederer: "what will become of the persons
remaining above?" "Sire," he replies, "they seem to be in plain dress.
Those who have swords have merely to take them off, follow you and leave
by the garden." A certain number of gentlemen, indeed, do so, and thus
depart while others escape by the opposite side through the gallery of
the Louvre.]

[Footnote 2688: Mathon de la Varenne, "Histoire particuliere," etc.,
108. (Testimony of the valet-de-chambre Lorimier de Chamilly, with whom
Mathon was imprisoned in the prison of La Force.]

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