f this place from the Seine. The guards at these wickets again
gave way, to allow a certain number of the malcontents to enter, and
then shut the doors. These men, excited by their march, songs, the
acclamations of the Assembly, and by intoxication, rushed with furious
clamours into the court-yards of the Chateau. They ran to the principal
doors, pressed upon the soldiers on guard, called their comrades without
to come to them, and forced the hinges of the royal entrance gate. The
municipal officer, Panis, gave orders that it should be opened. The
Carrousel was forced, and the mob seemed for a moment to hesitate before
the cannon pointed against them, and some squadrons of _gendarmerie_,
drawn up in a line of battle. Saint Prix, who commanded the artillery,
separated from his guns by a movement of the crowd, sent to the second
in command an order to let them fall back in the door of the Chateau. He
refused to obey: "_The Carrousel is forced_," he said in a loud voice,
"_and so must be the Chateau. Here, artillery men, here is the enemy!_"
And he pointed to the king's windows, turned his guns, and levelled them
at the palace. The troops following this desertion of the artillery,
remained in line, but took the powder from the pans of their muskets in
sight of the people, in sign of fraternity, and allowed a free passage
to the malcontents.

At this movement of the soldiers, the commandant of the national guard,
who witnessed it, called from the court to the grenadiers, whom he saw
at the windows of the _Salle des Gardes_, to take their arms, and defend
the staircase. The grenadiers, instead of obeying, left the palace by
the gallery leading to the garden.

Santerre, Theroigne, and Saint-Huruge hastened by the gate of the
palace. The boldest and stoutest of the men in the mob went under the
vault which leads from the Carrousel to the garden, dashed the
artillerymen on one side, and seizing one of the guns, unlimbered it,
and carried it in their arms to the _Salle des Gardes_, on the top of
the grand staircase. The crowd, emboldened by this feat of strength and
audacity, poured into the apartment and spread like a torrent throughout
the staircase and corridors of the Chateau. All the doors were burst in,
or fell beneath the shoulders and axes of the multitude. They shouted
loudly for the king; only one door separated them, and this door was
already yielding beneath the efforts of levers and blows of pikes from
the assailan