to dress yourself; fly to the King’s apartment!” The terrified Queen threw herself out of bed; they put a petticoat upon her without tying it, and the two ladies conducted her towards the oile-de-boeuf.  A door, which led from the Queen’s dressing-room to that apartment, had never before been fastened but on her side.  What a dreadful moment!  It was found to be secured on the other side.  They knocked repeatedly with all their strength; a servant of one of the King’s valets de chambre came and opened it; the Queen entered the King’s chamber, but he was not there.  Alarmed for the Queen’s life, he had gone down the staircases and through the corridors under the oeil-de-boeuf, by means of which he was accustomed to go to the Queen’s apartments without being under the necessity of crossing that room.  He entered her Majesty’s room and found no one there but some Body Guards, who had taken refuge in it.  The King, unwilling to expose their lives, told them to wait a few minutes, and afterwards sent to desire them to go to the oeil-de-boeuf.  Madame de Tourzel, at that time governess of the children of France, had just taken Madame and the Dauphin to the King’s apartments.  The Queen saw her children again.  The reader must imagine this scene of tenderness and despair.

It is not true that the assassins penetrated to the Queen’s chamber and pierced the bed with their swords.  The fugitive Body Guards were the only persons who entered it; and if the crowd had reached so far they would all have been massacred.  Besides, when the rebels had forced the doors of the antechamber, the footmen and officers on duty, knowing that the Queen was no longer in her apartments, told them so with that air of truth which always carries conviction.  The ferocious horde instantly rushed towards the oeil-de-boeuf, hoping, no doubt, to intercept her on her way.

Many have asserted that they recognised the Duc d’Orleans in a greatcoat and slouched hat, at half-past four in the morning, at the top of the marble staircase, pointing out with his hand the guard-room, which led to the Queen’s apartments.  This fact was deposed to at the Chatelet by several individuals in the course of the inquiry instituted respecting the transactions of the 5th and 6th of October.

[The National Assembly was sitting when information of the march of the Parisians was given to it by one of the deputies who came from Paris.  A certain number of the members were no strangers, to this movement.  It appears that Mirabeau wished to avail himself of it to raise the Duc d’Orleans to the throne.  Mounier, who presided over the National Assembly, rejected the idea with horror.  “My good man,” said Mirabeau to him, “what difference will it make to you to have Louis XVII. for your King instead of Louis XVI.?” (The Duc d’Orleans was baptised Louis.)]