The army occupied the Place d’Armes, all the courtyards of the Chateau, and the entrance to the avenue.  They called for the Queen to appear in the balcony:  she came forward with Madame and the Dauphin.  There was a cry of “No children!” Was this with a view to deprive her of the interest she inspired, accompanied as she was by her young family, or did the leaders of the democrats hope that some madman would venture to aim a mortal blow at her person?  The unfortunate Princess certainly was impressed with the latter idea, for she sent away her children, and with her hands and eyes raised towards heaven, advanced upon the balcony like a self-devoted victim.

A few voices shouted “To Paris!” The exclamation soon became general.  Before the King agreed to this removal he wished to consult the National Assembly, and caused that body to be invited to sit at the Chateau.  Mirabeau opposed this measure.  While these discussions were going forward it became more and more difficult to restrain the immense disorderly multitude.  The King, without consulting any one, now said to the people:  “You wish, my children, that I should follow you to Paris:  I consent, but on condition that I shall not be separated from my wife and family.”  The King added that he required safety also for his Guards; he was answered by shouts of “Vivo le Roi!  Vivent les Gardes-du-corps!” The Guards, with their hats in the air, turned so as to exhibit the. cockade, shouted “Vive le Roi!  Vive la Nation!” shortly afterwards a general discharge of all the muskets took place, in token of joy.  The King and Queen set off from Versailles at one o’clock.  The Dauphin, Madame, the King’s daughter, Monsieur, Madame,—­[Madame, here, the wife of Monsieur le Comte de Provence.]—­Madame Elisabeth, and Madame de Tourzel, were in the carriage; the Princesse de Chimay and the ladies of the bedchamber for the week, the King’s suite and servants, followed in Court carriages; a hundred deputies in carriages, and the bulk of the Parisian army, closed the procession.

The poissardes went before and around the carriage of their Majesties, Crying, “We shall no longer want bread!  We have the baker, the baker’s wife, and the baker’s boy with us!” In the midst of this troop of cannibals the heads of two murdered Body Guards were carried on poles.  The monsters, who made trophies of them, conceived the horrid idea of forcing a wigmaker of Sevres to dress them up and powder their bloody locks.  The unfortunate man who was forced to perform this dreadful work died in consequence of the shock it gave him.

[The King did not leave Versailles till one o’clock.  The Queen, the Dauphin, Madame Royale, Monsieur, Madame Elisabeth, and Madame de Tourzel were in his Majesty’s carriage.  The hundred deputies in their carriages came next.  A detachment of brigands, bearing the heads of the two Body Guards in triumph, formed the advance guard, and set out two hours earlier.  These cannibals stopped a moment