Now that the King is crowned, he ascends the steps of the jube, and seats himself upon the throne.  The religious silence, maintained to that moment, is broken by cries of “Long live the King!” which rise from all parts of the Cathedral.  The ladies in the galleries wave their handkerchiefs.  The enthusiasm reaches a paroxysm.  Flourishes of trumpets resound.  The people enter the Cathedral amid acclamations.  Three salutes are fired by the infantry of the royal guard.  The artillery responds from the city ramparts.  The bells ring.  The heralds-at-arms distribute the medals struck for the coronation.  The people rush to get them.  The keepers release the birds, which fly here and there beneath the vaulted roof, dazzled, terrified by the shining chandeliers.  The Te Deum is sung.  High Mass begins.  At the offertory the King leaves the throne to go to the altar with the offerings.  Reaching the front of the altar, he hands his sceptre to Marshal Soult, Duke of Dalmatia, the Main de Justice to Marshal Mortier, Duke of Treviso.  Then, after having presented in succession the offerings,—­viz. the wine in a vase of gold, the Pain d’Argent, the Pain d’Or,—­he resumes his sceptre and his Main de Justice and returns to the throne.

After the benediction, the Grand Almoner goes and takes the kiss of peace from the Archbishop, and then goes and gives it to the King.  The Dauphin, the Duke of Orleans, and the Duke of Bourbon, laying aside their ducal crowns, come and receive the kiss from the King.

After the domine salvum fac regem Charles X. again descends from the throne, and returns to the altar.  There he removes his crown and retires behind the altar to his confessional, where he remains three minutes.  During this time the holy table is prepared.  The cloth is held on one side by the Bishop of Hermopolis, First Almoner of the King, and on the other by the Grand Almoner.  Charles X. kneels on a cushion before the holy table, which is supported by the Dauphin and the Duke of Orleans.  The King receives the communion in both kinds.  The whole assembly kneels.  The great crown of Charlemagne is handed to Marshal Jourdan, who bears it in front of the King.  The Archbishop then places the diamond crown on the King’s head, who resumes his sceptre and his Main de Justice, while the choir chants the exaudiat, and returns with his cortege to the Archbishop’s palace, passing through the church and the covered gallery.  It is half-past eleven in the morning.  The ceremony of consecration is finished.  It has lasted four hours.

Reaching his apartments, Charles X. passes the sceptre to Marshal Soult, the Main de Justice to Marshal Mortier.  The shirt and the gloves touched by the holy unction must be burned.  The great officers of the crown then escort the monarch to the royal banquet in the great hall.  There he eats under a dais with the Dauphin, the Duke of Orleans, and the Duke of Bourbon, with their ducal crowns, and he with the diamond crown upon the head.