TWENTIETH . . . . . . . . . . 219
XXII. LAFAYETTE IN PARIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
XXIII. THE LAMOURETTE KISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
XXIV. THE FETE OF THE FEDERATION IN 1792 . . . . . . . 248
XXV. THE LAST DAYS AT THE TUILERIES . . . . . . . . . 259
XXVI. THE PROLOGUE TO THE TENTH OF AUGUST . . . . . . 267
XXVII. THE NIGHT OF AUGUST NINTH TO TENTH . . . . . . . 275
XXVIII. THE MORNING OF AUGUST TENTH . . . . . . . . . . 284
XXIX. THE BOX OF THE LOGOGRAPH . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
XXX. THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
XXXI. THE RESULTS OF THE COMBAT . . . . . . . . . . . 316
XXXII. THE ROYAL FAMILY IN THE CONVENT OF THE FEUILLANTS 329
XXXIII. THE TEMPLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
XXXIV. THE PRINCESS DE LAMBALLE'S MURDER . . . . . . . 350
XXXV. THE SEPTEMBER MASSACRES . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
XXXVI. MADAME ROLAND DURING THE MASSACRES . . . . . . . 372
XXXVII. THE PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC . . . . . . . . 384
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395

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MARIE ANTOINETTE

AND

THE DOWNFALL OF ROYALTY.

I.

PARIS AT THE BEGINNING OF 1792.

Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old
French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the
present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at
court, had been suppressed. The aristocracy and the Revolution lived
face to face. In 1792, the scene has changed. The Paris of the
nobility is no longer in Paris, but at Coblentz. The Faubourg
Saint-Germain is like a desert. Since June, 1790, armorial bearings
have been taken down. The blazons of ancient houses have been broken
and thrown into the gutters. No more display, no more liveries, no
more carriages with coats-of-arms on their panels. Titles and manorial
names are done away with. The Duke de Brissac is called M. Cosse; the
Duke de Caraman, M. Riquet; the Duke d'Aiguillon, M. Vignerot. The
_Almanach royal_ of 1792 mentions not a single court appointment.

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In 1789, it was still an exceptional thing for the nobility to
emigrate. In 1792, it is the rule. Those among the nobles who have
had the courage to remain at Paris in the midst of the furnace, so as
to make a rampart for the King of their bodies, seem half ashamed of
their generous conduct. The illusions of worl