[Footnote 1:  All the Year Round, 1885.]

The mob of Paris having ascertained that the fugitive royal family were pausing at Rambouillet, about twelve miles from the capital, set out to see what mischief could be done in that direction.  The Duchesse de Berri, her children, and the Duc d’Angouleme were at the Chateau de Maintenon, and the king, upon the approach of the mob, composed only of roughs, determined to join them.  As he passed out of the chateau, which he had used as a hunting-lodge, he stretched out his hand with a gesture of despair to grasp those of some friends who had followed him to Rambouillet, and who were waiting for his orders.  He had none to give them.  He spoke no word of advice, but walked down the steps to his carriage, and was driven to the Chateau de Maintenon to rejoin his family.

The mob, when it found that the king had fled, was persuaded to quit Rambouillet by having some of the most brutal among them put into the king’s coaches.  Attended by the rest of the unruly crowd, they were driven back to Paris, and assembling before the Palais Royal, shouted to Louis Philippe:  “We have brought you your coaches.  Come out and receive them!” Eighteen years later, these coaches were consumed in a bonfire in the Place du Carrousel.

At the Chateau de Maintenon all was confusion and discouragement, when suddenly the dauphine (the Duchesse d’Angouleme) arrived.  She, whom Napoleon had said was the only man of her family, was in Burgundy when she received news of the outbreak of the Revolution.  At once she crossed several provinces of France in disguise.  Harsh of voice, stern of look, cold in her bearing, she was nevertheless a favorite with the household troops whose spirit was reanimated by the sight of her.

From Rambouillet the king had sent his approbation of the appointment of the Duke of Orleans as lieutenant-general during the minority of Henri V. Louis Philippe’s answer to this communication so well satisfied the old king that he persuaded the dauphin to join with him in abdicating all rights in favor of Henri V., the little Duc de Bordeaux.  Up to this moment Charles seems never to have suspected that more than such an abdication could be required of him.  But by this time it was evident that the successful Parisians would be satisfied with nothing less than the utter overthrow of the Bourbons.  Their choice lay between a constitutional monarchy with Louis Philippe at its head, or a renewal of the attempt to form a republic.

The populace, on hearing that the abdication of the king and of the dauphin had been announced to the Chamber of Deputies, assembled to the number of sixty thousand, and insisted on the trial and imprisonment of the late king.  Hearing this, the royal family left the Chateau de Maintenon the next morning, the king and the Duchesse d’Angouleme taking leave of their faithful troops, and desiring them to return to Paris, there to make their submission to the lieutenant-general, “who had taken all measures for their security and prosperity in the future.”