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 DURING THE CONFINEMENT 
 
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 THE KING. 
 THE QUEEN. 
 
 His Royal Highness the PRINCE of WALES. 
 Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS of WALES 
 His Koyal Highness the DUKE of YORK. 
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 H R P , S lghness PONCES* AMELIA. 
 His Royal Highness the DUKE of GLOUCESTER 
 PRINCE WILLIAM of GLOUCESTER. 
 
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 Aylesbury, Earl of 
 
 Andre, . , Esq. 
 Ans t rut her, -, Esq. 
 Antrobus, Rev. - 
 Antoine, M. 
 
 g Aylesbury, Countess of 
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 M Abercromby, Sir Robert 
 cc Andrews, Sir Jos. Bart. 
 a Amherst, Lord 
 "** Amherst, Lady 
 Almeida, LeChev.d' 
 
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 Arkwright, Miss 
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 Aswald, James, Esq. 
 Atkinson, jun. Jasper 
 Atkyns; Mrs. 
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 Arden, Lady 
 
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 Amherst, Miss 
 
 Atherton, Mrs, 
 
 Aberdeen, Robert 
 Adam, Wm. Esq. M. P 
 Adey, J. T. Esq. 
 Adamson, , Esq. 
 
 Arnolt, Mathew Rob. Esq. 
 Ashley Cooper, Lady B. 
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 oc Ainslie, General 
 
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 Balestrino, Pietro 
 Barasdin, La Generals de 
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 Bastard, Mrs. 
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 Balcarras, Lady 
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 Balfour, Th. of Balbirny 
 Berwick, Lord 
 
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 Bentinck, Lord. Ch. 
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 Berkeley, Hon. G. 
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 Bourke, M. 
 
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 Boswell, Alexander 
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 Brandling, Chey. 
 
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 Burton, James, Esq. M.P. 
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 Butler, Charles, Esq. 
 Bunbury, Sir T. C. Bart. 
 Bull, Miss, 
 Buller, Miss, 
 Burdon, M. *& ' 
 Bulkeley, Lord, 
 Butterharris, James, Esq. 
 Buchan, Countess of, 
 Burnett, Archid. Esq. 
 Buccleugh, Duchess of, 
 Balcarras, Countess of, 
 Bootle, Edw. Wilbraham, Esq. 
 Bath, Lady, 
 Beckers, Countess of, 
 Brodrick, Hon. Miss, 
 Bristol, Bishop of 
 Basset, Hon. Mrs. 
 Basset, Miss Mary, 
 Beaumont, Lady, 
 Botler> Mrs* 
 
 Beaufort, Dutch. Dow. of 
 Binhawnof, John, 
 
 Bidulph, , Esq. 
 
 Breughton, C. Esq.' 
 Brooke Taylor, , Esq. 
 Brandling, C. Esq. 
 Butler, Hon. Jos. 
 Bate, Edward, Esq. 
 Byam, Rev. S. 
 Burnand, P. Esq. 
 Baylis, Thomas 
 Bayning, Lord, 
 Barrington, Hon. Mrs, 
 Bonfoy, Mrs. 
 Bruce, Lord, 
 Bruce, Lady, 
 Bruce, Lady C. 
 Bruce, Hon. T. M. P. 
 Brown, Hon. Tho. 
 .Bessborough, Earl of, 
 
 Bessborough, Countess of, 
 Boringdon, Lord> 
 Bentinck, Lord J. 
 Beauclerk, Lady C. 
 Beauclerk, Lord Fred. 
 Basker, Rev. Charles* 
 
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 Campbell, Mrs. Rob. 
 Campbell, Mrs. 
 Carnarvon, Countess of, 
 Carpenter, Lady Almelra, 
 
 Cater, , Esq. 
 
 CareW, Miss Pole, 
 Caillaud, Brigadier-General 
 Calor, T. 
 
 Campbell, Lady Amelia, 
 Cavendish, LordG. A.H.M.P. 
 Calvert, C. Esq. 
 Calvert, Wm. Esq. 
 Campbell, Henry, Esq. 
 Carrington, Lord, 
 Carlisle, Earl of, 
 Carhampton, Lady, 
 Cauvin, Sir Wm. 
 Cathcart, Sir Andrew, Bart* 
 Campbell> Archibald, 
 Campbell, Mrs. 
 Campbell, Gal. Esq. 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 
 Carlisle, Countess of, 
 
 Chailloue, M. 
 
 Chambers, , Esq. 
 
 Charlton, , Esq. 
 
 Crichton, Dr. 
 Cholmondely, Earl of 
 Childers, Col. 
 Chesterfield, Earl of, 
 Chatfield, Mrs. 
 Chapman, Tho. Esq. 
 Champion, Alex, Es<J.
 
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 Chatham, Countess of, 
 Cholmley, Henry, Esq. 
 Christie, , Esq. 
 Chalmers, Rob. Esq. 
 Churchill, Mrs. 
 Challie, M. 
 
 Churchill, , Esq. 
 
 Charlton, Thomas, Esq. 
 Clarke, Miss, 
 Clarke, Rev. Dr. 
 Clarges, Lady, 
 Clifford, Lord, 
 Clermont, Earl of, 
 Clermont, Countess 
 Clive, Hon. Major, 
 Clifford, Hon. Robert 
 Clifford, Lady, 
 Clifden, Lord, 
 Clavering, Lady, 
 Clifton, Mrs. 
 Clerk, Lady, 
 Clerk, Th. Esq. 
 ComeriHe, Wm. 
 Corvee, M. 
 Cools, Mrs. 
 
 Coventry, Countess of, 
 Conyers, Miss, 
 Conyers, Miss, 
 Corirannon, Lucius, Esq. 
 
 Cookson, , Esq. 
 
 Coke, Lady Mary, 
 
 Coppinger, , Esq. 
 
 Constable, , Esq. 
 
 Cosway, Mrs. 
 Cowper, Mrs. 
 Cornwallis, Hon. Mrs. 
 Cork, Lady, 
 Cornwallis, Marq. of 
 Cooke, Th. Esq. 
 Col more, , Esq. 
 Cogan, \Vm. Esq. 
 Congalton, Dr. 
 Corri, M. 
 Corbett, Miss, 
 
 Corbett, Miss A. 
 Carmichael, Th. Esq. 
 Cocklume, Baron, 
 Coles, R. Esq. 
 Cookson, Mrs. 
 Cotton, M. 
 Cooper, Mrs. 
 Crus, M. 
 
 Cracherode, Le Rev. Dr. 
 Crowle, T. Esq. 
 Cronthall, T. 
 Craufurd, Rev. M. 
 Craufurd, Th. Esq. 
 Crowe, Mrs. Richard, 
 Craig, Lord, 
 Crabden, Miss, 
 Cupper, Col. 
 Cuthbert, T. R. Esq. 
 
 Curzons, , Esq. 
 
 Curzon, Lord, 
 Curzon, Lady, 
 
 Curt, , of 
 
 Cuningham, Mrs. 
 Cumin, Geo. Esq. 
 Cumin, Mrs. 
 
 Cuningham, Lady Elizabeth, 
 Cuthile, Wm. Esq. 
 Cuningham, Lady, 
 Canning, J. Esq. 
 
 Canning, , Esq. 
 
 Churchill, Rt. Hon. Mary, 
 
 Canning, , Esq. 
 
 Clerke, - , Esq. 
 
 Clerke, Mrs. 
 Cheappe, Mrs. 
 Cowper, Henry, Esq. 
 Canning, Geo. Esq. M.P. 
 Chalmers, Col. 
 
 Crawford, , Esq. 
 
 Crawford, Mrs. 
 Carpenter, Lord, 
 Carnarvon, Lord, 
 Chandos, Duch. Dow. of, 
 Cardigan, Earl of, 
 Cardigan, Countess of, 
 Cremorne, Lady,
 
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 Gary, John, Esq. 
 
 Dawson, Mrs. 
 
 Dawson, , Esq. 
 
 Dartmouth, Earl of, 
 Dartmouth, Countess of 
 Davies, Miss, 
 Davis, Edw. Esq. 
 Dalyell, Sir James, 
 Darell, Edw. Esq. 
 Dashwood, Lady, 
 Darley, Rd. Esq. 
 Darnley, Earl of, 
 Darby, Col. 
 
 Dalrymple, Charles, Esq. 
 Dalhousie, Countess of, 
 Dalrymple, Mrs of Fowtate 
 Dalrymple, Sir James, 
 Dalrymple, Mrs. I,. 
 Davidson, H. Esq. 
 Dalrymple, Miss E. 
 Dalrymple, Miss, 
 Dalkeith, Earl of, 
 Dalkeith, Countess of, 
 Dalkeith, Major Scott, 
 Deacon, Mrs. 
 Deloynes, M. 
 Derby, Earl of, 
 Demoive, Mrs. 
 Dechemant M. 
 Dempster, Geo. Esq. 
 Devons, Lieut. -Col 
 Derval, Major, 
 Deant, Edward, 
 Dempster, Mrs. 
 Dewar, Lieut.-Col. 
 Deering, Mrs. 
 Dewis, Thomas, Esq. 
 Dewindt, the Baron, 
 
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 Denais, Rev. M. 
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 Dillon, Count Edward, 
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 Downe, Viscountess, 
 Douglas, Andrew Esq. 
 
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 Douglas, , of Cavers 
 
 Douglas, Lord, 
 Douglas, Lady, 
 Douglas,Rt. Hon. Sylvester, 
 Downshire, Marquis ol 
 
 Douglas, Rt. Hon. , 
 
 Douglas, Miss, 
 Drummond, Wm. M.P. 
 Drummond, Jh. Esq. 
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 Drake, F. Esq. 
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 Duer, Miss, 
 Dutton, Hon. , 
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 Dudley, Mrs. 
 Duncan, Hon. Alex. 
 Duncan, Major, 
 Dundas, Mrs. Ch. 
 Dundas, Miss Mar. 
 Dukinson, Charles, Esq. 
 Duncombe, Lady Charlotte, 
 Dumergue, Charles, Esq. 
 Dudley, Rev. H. B. 
 Dunnage, J. Esq. 
 Dundas, J.Esq. 
 Dymock, Captain, 
 Dorchester, Earl of, 
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 Dormer, M. 
 
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 Dumfries, Lady, 
 Davison, Miss, 
 Durham, Bishop of, 
 Devonshire, Duke of, 
 
 Fane, J. Esq. M.P. 
 i"agan, Captain, 
 "aulkner, , Esq. 
 "anshawe, Miss, 
 
 Devonshire, Dutchess of, 
 Dartmouth, Earl of, 
 Dartmouth, Countess of, 
 
 ?arrer, Mrs. 
 <*enil, Mrs. 
 Ferrers, Rev. Dr. E. 
 
 Duncombe, Lady Charlotte, 
 Dersement, M. - 
 Delars, Mrs. 
 
 "earon, Dr. 
 i"erguson, Mrs. 
 r erswson, Rob. Esq. 
 7 errier, Col. 
 
 Edge, Mrs. 
 Eden, Sir Fred. Bart. 
 Edmonstone, Miss, 
 
 Ferner, Arch. Esq. 
 "erguson, Lieut. Col; 
 T enwick, Miss, 
 
 Eden, , Esq. 
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 nsher, Miss, 
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 Egerton, Maj. General, 
 
 Fitz, M. 
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 ?ox, Hon. Mrs. 
 
 Ellis, G. 
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 Elphinston, J. Esq. 
 
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 Elliot, Mrs. 
 
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 Elliot, Miss, 
 
 Forbes, Miss Rebecca, 
 
 Englefield, Sir Wm. 
 Englefield, Lady. 
 Erskine, Mgr. 
 
 Forbes, Miss, 
 Ferguson, Mrs. of Isle 
 Folhamgham, Col. 
 
 Erne, Countess of, 
 
 Foveaux, , Esq. 
 
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 Errol, Countess Dow. of, 
 
 Fodel, Dan. jun. 
 Freemantle, Mrs. 
 
 Evelyn Steward, Lord, 
 Ewart, Mrs. 
 
 Frazer Frizell, C. S. 
 Fremeaux, Mrs. E. 
 
 Evelyn, Mrs. 
 
 Fremeaux, Miss, 
 
 Evelin Stuart, Lord, 
 
 Francillon, Mrs. 
 
 Evre, Rev. J. 
 
 Frevor, Rob. Esq. 
 
 Eyre, M. , 
 
 Freemantle, Hon. Mrs 
 
 Eden, Hon. Wm. 
 
 Fuller, , Esq. 
 
 Eden, Hon. Geo. 
 
 Fullerton, Col. 
 
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 Fulton, Miss, 
 
 Eden, LadyEliz. 
 
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 Fynes, Mrs. 
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 Gaussen, Sam. Rt. Esq. 
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 Gardner, Wm. D. 
 Gardiner, Captain, 
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 Gaussen, Miss, 
 Gebhardt, Miss, 
 Gillies, Dr. 
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 Gipps, Miss, 
 Gilchrist, H. 
 Gisbon, Archibald, 
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 Gilpin, Miss, 
 Gilpin, Wm. Esq. 
 Giroux, Mrs. 
 
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 Glanviile, , Esq. 
 
 Goldsworthy, Miss, 
 Gomm, Miss, 
 Goddart, Mrs. 
 Godfrey, D. Esq. 
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 Gower, Earl of 
 Gordon, Duke of, 
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 Gordon, Lord Adam, 
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 Grey, Lady, of Wilton 
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 Gretton, T. 
 Green, Miss, 
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 Grumisen, *, M. 
 
 Grant, Gregory, Esq, 
 Graham, Rob. Esq. 
 Grant, Geo. Esq. 
 Graham, Miss, 
 Green, C. 
 
 Grip, M. " 
 
 Greenwood, Rev. M. 
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 Guillies, Col. 
 Gunthorpe, Miss, 
 Gulston, Miss* 
 Gwydir, Lord, 
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 Grenville, Lord, 
 QrifBn, Steph, Esq.. 
 jGreville, Lady Charlotte, 
 I (faultier, L'Abbe, 
 Garrick, Mrs. 
 I Golds-worthy, General, 
 j Gamier, Rev. Wm. 
 .Gower, Lord Gr. Leviston. 
 [Graham, Colonel 
 jGlencairn, Lady 
 H. 
 
 jHarewood, Rt. Hon. Lord, 
 Hardwick, Tho. Esq 
 Hamilton O'Hara, Mrs. 
 
 awkins, J. Esq. M.B. . 
 
 atley Foote, G..T. Esq., 
 
 atsell, J. Esq. 
 
 atsell, Mrs. 
 
 arcourt, General,. 
 Harcourt, Mrs. Jane, 
 Hales, Ph. Esq. 
 Harrovvby, Rt. Hon. Lady, 
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 Harris, J.C. Esq. 
 Hampden, Lady, 
 Hammond, Sir Andrew, Bart. 
 Harford, Mrs. 
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 Hay Bimber, J. Esq. 
 Halkett, Captain, 
 Hailes, Lady, 
 Harbord, Lady Car. 
 Hamilton, Mrs. 
 HallyTrirton,Hon. D. C. 
 Harewood, Lady, 
 
 Haman, M. , 
 
 Harpur, Rev. Sam. 
 Hay, Lewis, Esq. 
 Hamilton, Mrs. 
 
 Heude, M. , 
 
 Heaviside, G. Esq. 
 Heathcote, Sir Gilb. Bart. M.P. 
 Heathcote, Lady, 
 Healbisle, T. Esq. 
 
 Hervey, M. , 
 
 . Hervey, Mrs. 
 Herschel, Mrs. 
 Hervey, Lord, 
 Hervey, Lady Louisa, 
 Hereford, Dow. Viscountess, 
 Hertford, Marquis of, 
 Hearw, J. 
 Hepburne, Col. 
 Heron, Mrs. 
 Heron, Miss, 
 Heron, Miss, 
 Heaton, Mrs. 
 Hison, Alex. 
 Howard, P. Esq. 
 Homes, Mrs. S. 
 Hompesch, Miss, 
 Holcombe, Miss, 
 
 Howortb, , Esq. 
 
 Horneck, General, 
 Holderness, Countess of, 
 Howe, Hon. Mrs. Carolina, 
 
 Hood, Alex. Esq. 
 
 Home, , Esq. 
 
 Home, Wm. 
 Hope, Ch. Esq. 
 Hood, Lord, 
 Houblon, Mrs. 
 Howe, Lady Mary, 
 Houston, Col. 
 Home, Miss, 
 
 Home, M. , 
 
 Honeywood, Lady, 
 Hruman, T. E. Esq. 
 Hulme, N. M.D. F.R.A.S.S. 
 Hurt, Miss, 
 Hussey, Miss, 
 Hurt, Miss, 
 Hughes, G. C. Esq. 
 Huntingfield, Lord, 
 
 Humbull, Rt. Hon. , 
 
 Hulse, Mrs. 
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 Humphries, J. Esq. 
 Hunt, J. Esq. 
 Hume, Lady, 
 Hunter, A., M. D. 
 Hunlington, Mrs. Deans, 
 Hume, David, Esq. 
 Hunter, Alex. Esq, 
 
 Hughes, Rev. > 
 
 Huldam, Miss, 
 
 Huun, M. , 
 
 Hill Porters, Miss, 
 Hammond, Geo. Esq. 
 Henniker, Sir John, Bart, 
 Hankey, Mrs. 
 Holland, Richard 
 Holland, Mrs. 
 Holland, Miss 
 Herbert, P. A. Esq. 
 
 Hume, , Esq. 
 
 Hamilton, , of Sundrum 
 
 Harrington, Countess of 
 Holland, Lord 
 Hatton, Lady Anne 
 Hervey, Lady 
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 Holland, Dr. 
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 Howard, Lady Jul. 
 Heneagc, J. Walter, Esq. 
 Hubert, Mrs. 
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 Jerningham, Sir Wm. Bart. 
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 Invrie, Lieut. Col. 
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 Jupp, R. Esq. 
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 Kay, A. M. Esq. 
 Ker, Rt. Hon. Mary 
 Ker, Lady Elizabeth 
 Ker, J. Esq. 
 
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 Keats, , Esq. 
 
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 Kemble, C. 
 
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 Keith, Mrs. A. 
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 Larpent, Mrs. 
 Laudrrdale, Countess of 
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 Lansdown, Marquis of 
 Laurence, Dr. M. P. 
 Lavington, Lord 
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 Lawson, , of Cardonnel 
 
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 Lawson, J. Esq. . 
 
 Lewis, J. Esq. 
 
 Leicester, Earl of 
 
 Lemon, Sir Wm. Bart. M. P. 
 
 Leeds, Duke of 
 
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 Lennox, Lord Geo. 
 
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 Le Despencer, Lady 
 
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 Lee, Grneral 
 
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 L'Homme,. M. 
 
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 Libollon, Henry 
 
 Lind, Dr. 
 
 Lisle, Hon. Mrs. 
 
 Liverpool, Countess of 
 
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 Loitham, Mrs. C. 
 
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 Lukin, Esq. Robert 
 Lucas, Lady 
 Lumiden, Andrew 
 Leigh, Rer. William 
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 Lamb, M. 
 
 Lloyd, Mrs. 
 
 Lawley, Sir Robert, Bart. 
 
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 rtin, Lady 
 
 rtin, Miss Anne 
 
 artin, Miss Sarah 
 
 artin, Miss 
 
 aitland, Ebenezer, Esq. 
 
 athew, J. Esq. 
 
 akwell, M. Constable, Esq, 
 
 ackenzie, Sir George, Bart, 
 
 aillaind, C.Esq. 
 
 ackenzie, Lady 
 Mackenzie, Colin, Esq. 
 
 acloud, General 
 Vlacloud, Mrs. G. 
 
 ailland, B. 
 
 oncriefF, Lady E. 
 
 ackay, Colonel 
 
 axwell, Colonel Christopher 
 
 ax well, Edward, Esq. 
 
 [acdonald, Heaor, Eeq. 
 
 ^aconschee, Alex. Esq. 
 
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 Mellish, William, Esq. 
 
 tfellevill, General Robert 
 
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 Vlilner, Miss 
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 Montaigne, Mrs. 
 
 Molloy, Mrs. 
 
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 Monck, Lady Eliz. 
 
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 Morrei, M. 
 
 Morlimere, E. Esq. 
 
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 Montagu, Lady Hamel 
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 Mure, Mrs. 
 Mure, Miss E. 
 Muire Mackenzie, Mrs. 
 Murray Keith, Mrs. 
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 Mount Egecumbe, Coun. Dow 
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 Monlhausen, Mrs. 
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 Newark, Lady 
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 Northumberland, Duke of 
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 North, Rev. Francis 
 
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 O'Kelly, Colonel 
 
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 Orange, S. A. S. Prince d' 
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 Osborne, Sir G. Bait. Lt. Gen. 
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 Palmerstone, Viscount, M. P, 
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 Paynr, William, Esq. 
 
 Partez, M. 
 
 Parker, Captain 
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 Peachey, Hon. J. 
 
 Pepper, , Esq. 
 
 Pechell, Mrs. 
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 Peltier, M. 
 
 Pentrez, , Rev. 
 
 Percy, Lord H. 
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 Rowswell, Isaac 
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 Roland, Captain 
 Romney, Lady 
 Rosdew, Mrs. 
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 leid, Mrs. John 
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 Salisbury, Captain 
 
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 Saodford, Rev. D. 
 
 Sandford, Mrs. 
 
 Sands,' Mrs. 
 
 Sullivan, M. 
 
 Sanford, Mrs. 
 
 Saint Ours, Major 
 
 St. Aubin, Sir J. Bart. 
 
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 Saint George, Mrs. 
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 Scott, Mrs. 
 
 Schultz, Miss 
 
 Seymour, Lord Rob. M. P. 
 
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 Sheffield/ Lady 
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 Shirreff, Mrs. 
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 Singleton, Lady Mary 
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 Silbala, M, 
 
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 Sutton, Lady 
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 Sutherland, Countess of 
 
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 Sykes, Rev. Christopher 
 
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 Stapleton, Mrs. 
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 Sydney, Lord 
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 Shaw le Febvre, C. Esq. M. P. 
 
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 Selsey, Lord 
 
 Seignorel, M. 
 
 St. Hellens, Lord 
 
 Sterbert, Mrs. 
 
 Smith, C. Esq. M. P. 
 
 Sedley, Lord 
 
 Slack, Thomas 
 
 Stopford, Lady Mary 
 
 Spencer, Lord Charles 
 
 Spencer, Lord, Admiralty 
 
 Spencer, Lady 
 
 Stanhope, Hon. Lieut. Col. W. 
 
 Steward, Lady Eliz. 
 
 Stanley, Hon. Mrs. 
 
 Smith, Miss Ashton 
 
 T. 
 
 Tancred, Lady 
 Tatham, G. H. Esq. 
 Taylor, Herbert, Esq. 
 Taylor, R. Esq. 
 Temple, Earl of 
 Temple, Dowager Lady 
 Temple, Lord 
 Teallum, Dr. 
 Thompson, Miss 
 Thompson, Mrs. 
 Theliger, Augustus 
 Thomas, Inigo, Esq. 
 Thompson, Richard, Esq. 
 Thursay, Mrs. 
 Thompson, T. Esq. 
 Thellusson, Mrs. 
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 Thornton, Thomas, Esq. 
 
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 Toke, M. 
 
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 Trefusis, Miss 
 
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 Trait, Miss 
 
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 Thurlow, Miss 
 
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 Turner, , Esq. 
 
 Tyrawley, Lady 
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 Tyler, J. Esq. 
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 Talbot, Miss 
 Tinker, Mrs. 
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 Thellusscn, Mrs. Charlotte 
 Tower, Mrs. 
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 Uxbridge, Earl or 
 Uxbridge, Countess of 
 
 V. 
 Vansittart, Miss Sophia 
 
 Vaines, , Esq. 
 
 Valentia, Lord 
 Vaiues, Mrs. 
 Vansittart, Miss 
 
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 Vane, Sir H. Bart. 
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 Vaughan, Mrs. 
 Valangin, Lord 
 Vavasour, JMrs. 
 Vernon, Miss 
 Vincent, Geo. Esq. 
 Vidall, Cuonzs, Esq. 
 Villiers, Lady Gertrude 
 Vigurs, M. 
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 Vincent, Rev. Dr. 
 
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 Watson, H jn. H. 
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 Walpole, T. Esq. 
 Walpolc, Lord 
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 Warre, Mrs. J. 
 Warner, Joseph, Esq. 
 Warner, Mrs. 
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 Waldgrave,. Admiral 
 Wilberforce, Wm. Esq. M. P. 
 Wilberforce, Mrs. 
 
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 Windham, Rt. Hon. Wm. M. P. 
 Winchester, Bishop of 
 Wills, M. 
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 Worsley, Rt. Hon. Sir R. Bart. 
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 Woronzow, le Comte de 
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 Wood, Alex. Esq. 
 Woodford, Arch. Rev. M. 
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 Wares, J Esq. 
 Walker, M. G. Esq. 
 Warder, M. 
 
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 Wanderkell, Jacob 
 
 Webb, Sir T. Bart. 
 Walsmgham, Lord 
 
 \Vebb, . Esq. 
 
 Weston, Mrs 
 
 Wesley, Miss 
 Welton, M. 
 
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 Weltice, Lewis, Esq. 
 
 Wemyss, Lady Eliz. 
 Wemyss, Ed. 
 
 Walter, J. Esq. 
 Wheeler, Rev. Wm. John 
 
 Wedel, Jarlsberg, Comte de 
 
 Walpole, General 
 
 Webster, Sir Godfrey, Bt. M. P. 
 Wert, Mrs. 
 
 Wynne, Dr. 
 Worcester, Marchioness of 
 
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 Walhen, J. C. 
 
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 Waulme, J. V. Esq. 
 
 Whalley, T. Esq. 
 
 Warner, Mrs. 
 
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 Whalley, Mrs. 
 Whitaker, Mrs. 
 
 Yenne, J. 
 Young, Dow. Lady 
 
 Wilham, Rev. M. 
 
 Young, M. 
 
 Wilson, Thomas, Lib. 
 
 Z. 
 
 Willes, Rev. M. 
 
 Zalesky, le Comte 
 
 Windus, Arthur, Esq. 
 
 Zoffany, J. Esq. 
 
 Wickham, T. Esq. 
 
 
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 I 
 
 I
 
 A 
 
 JOURNAL 
 
 OF THE 
 
 OCCURRENCES 
 
 IN THE 
 
 TOWER OF THE TEMPLE, 
 
 DURING THE CONFINEMENT 
 OF 
 
 LOUIS XVI, 
 
 KING OF. FRANCE. 
 
 1 WAS in the service of the King of 
 France and his august Family five months 
 in the Tower of the Temple, and not- 
 withstanding the vigilance of the Muni- 
 cipal Officers who were the keepers of 
 it, I found means, by one way or other, 
 to make memorandums of the principal 
 occurrences that took place within that 
 prison.
 
 C a ) 
 
 Although I have been since induced to 
 arrange those memorandums in the 
 form of a Journal, my design is rather 
 to furnish materials to such as shall 
 hereafter write the History of the melan- 
 choly end of the unfortunate Lo u i s XVI, 
 than to compose Memoirs myself, which 
 is above my talents and pretensions. 
 
 Having been the only continual wit- 
 ness of the insults which the King and 
 his Family were made to suffer, I alone 
 can report and attest them with exact- 
 ness ; I shall accordingly confine myself 
 to publishing a detail of the facts simply, 
 impartially, and without mixing my 
 own opinions. 
 
 Although I had been an attendant on 
 the Royal Family from the year 1782, 
 and from the nature of my situation 
 have been witness to the most disastrous
 
 ( 3 ) 
 
 events in the course of the Revolution, it 
 would be deviating from my subject to 
 describe them ; indeed, most of them are 
 already to be found in various works. I 
 shall therefore begin this Journal at the 
 crisis of the loth of August, 1792 : that 
 dreadful day, on which a small number of 
 men overturned a Throne that had been 
 established fourteen centuries, threw 
 their King into fetters, and precipitated 
 France into an abyss of calamity, 
 
 ON the loth of August I was in wait- 
 ing on the Dauphin. From the morning 
 of the Qth the agitation of the public 
 mind was extreme: crowds assembled 
 every where throughout Paris, and the 
 plan of the conspirators was known be- 
 yond a doubt at the Thuilleries. The 
 alarm-bell was to be rung at midnight 
 
 A 2
 
 ( 4 ) 
 
 in every part of the town, and the Mar* 
 seillois, on being joined by the inha- 
 bitants of the fauxbourg St. Antoine, 
 were to march immediately and besiege 
 the Palace. Confined by the nature of 
 my employment to the apartments of 
 the young Prince, in attendance on his 
 person, I knew but partially what pass- 
 ed out of doors, and I shall give an ac- 
 count of those events only to which I 
 was witness that day, when so many 
 different scenes were exhibited, even in 
 the Palace, 
 
 In the evening of the gth at half past 
 eight o'clock, after having attended the 
 Dauphin to his bed, I went from the 
 Thuilleries with the view of learning 
 the sentiments of the public. The 
 courts of the Palace were filled with 
 about eight thousand National Guards, of 
 different Se&ions, who were disposed to
 
 ( 5 ) 
 
 defend the King. I made my way to 
 the Palais-Royal, where I found almost 
 all the avenues closed : some of the Na- 
 tional Guards were there under arms, 
 ready to march to the Thuilleries in or- 
 der to support the battalions that had 
 gone before them; but a mob, set in 
 motion by the leaders of sedition, filled 
 the adjacent streets, and rent the air on 
 all sides with their clamours. 
 
 I returned about eleven o'clock to the 
 Palace by the King's apartments. The 
 attendants of the Court, and those in 
 waiting on His Majesty, were collecting 
 together, and under great anxiety. I 
 passed on to the Dauphin's room, which 
 I had scarcely entered when I heard the 
 alarm-bell ringing and the drums beating 
 to arms in every quarter of the town. I 
 remained in the great hall till five in the 
 morning, in company with Madame de
 
 ( 6 ) 
 
 St. Price, bed-chamber woman to the 
 young Prince. At six, the King came 
 down into the courts of the Palace, and 
 reviewed the National Guards and the 
 Swiss, who swore to defend him. The 
 Queen and her children followed the 
 King; and although some seditious 
 voices were heard among the ranks, 
 they were soon drowned in the repeated 
 cries of Five le Roi ! Five la Nation ! 
 
 The Thuilleries not appearing to be 
 in immediate danger of attack, I again 
 went out, and walked along the quays as 
 far as the Pont-Neuf, every where meet- 
 ing bands of armed men, whose evil in- 
 tentions were very evident ; some had 
 pikes, others had pitch-forks, hatchets 
 or iron bars. The battalion of the Mar- 
 sellois were marching in the greatest or- 
 der, with their cannon and lighted 
 matches, inviting the people to follow
 
 ( 7 ) 
 
 them, and " assist," as they said, " in 
 " dislodging the tyrant, and proclaim- 
 " ing his deposition to the National As- 
 " sembly." I was but too well convinced 
 of what was approaching, yet impelled 
 by a sense of duty, I hastened before this 
 battalion, and made immediately for the 
 Thuilleries, where I saw a large body of 
 National Guards, pouring out in disorder 
 through the garden gate opposite to the 
 Poiit-Royals* Sorrow was visible on the 
 countenances of most of them ; and se- 
 veral were heard to say : " We swore 
 " this morning to defend the King, and 
 " in the moment of his greatest danger 
 " we are deserting him." Others, in 
 the interest of the conspirators, were 
 abusing and threatening their fellow- 
 soldiers, whom they forced away. Thus 
 did the well disposed suffer themselves 
 
 * A bridge across the Seine, opposite the Palace.
 
 to be overawed by the seditious, and that 
 culpable weakness, which had all along 
 been productive of the evils, of the Re- 
 volution, gave birth to the calamities of 
 this day. 
 
 After many attempts to gain admis- 
 sion into the Palace, a porter at one of 
 the gates knew me and suffered me to 
 pass. I ran immediately to the King's 
 apartments, and begged one of his at- 
 tendants to inform His Majesty of all I 
 had seen and heard. 
 
 At seven o'clock the distress was in- 
 creased by the cowardice of several bat- 
 talions that successively deserted the 
 Thuilleries. About four or five hundred 
 of the National Guards remained at their 
 post, and displayed equal fidelity and 
 courage: they were placed indiscrimi- 
 nately
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 tiately with the Swiss Guards within the 
 Palace, at the different stair-cases, and 
 at all the entrances, "t hese troops hav- 
 ing spent the night without taking any 
 refreshment, I eagerly engaged with 
 others of the King's servants in pro- 
 viding them with bread and wine, and 
 encouraging them not to desert the 
 Royal Family* It was at this time that 
 the King gave the command, within the 
 Palace, to the Marshal de Mailly, the 
 Duke du Chatelet, the Count de Puysegur, 
 the Baron de Viomenil, the Count d'Her- 
 villy, the Marquis du Pujet, and other 
 faithful officers. The attendants of the 
 Court and the servants were distributed 
 in the different halls, having first sworn 
 to defend the King to the last drop of 
 their blood. We were about three or 
 four hundred strong, but our only arms 
 were swords or pistols.
 
 At eight o'clock the danger became 
 more imminent. The Legislative As- 
 sembly was convened at the Riding- 
 House, facing the garden of the Thuil- 
 leries; and the King had sent several 
 messages to them, communicating the 
 situation in which he then was : at the 
 same time inviting them to appoint a 
 deputation to assist him with their coun- 
 sel ; but the Assembly, though the Pa- 
 lace was threatened with an attack be- 
 fore their, eyes, returned no answer. 
 
 Some few minutes after, the Depart-: 
 ment of Paris, and several Municipal 
 Officers made their appearance, with 
 RKderer, then Procurator-General-Syjidic^ 
 at their head. Rcederer, doubtless in con- 
 cert with the conspirators, strongly per- 
 
 * The title of the new law officer of the Directory of 
 the Department.
 
 ( II ) 
 
 suaded the King to go with his Family 
 to the Assembly, asserting that he ? could 
 no longer depend upon the National 
 Guard, and declaring that if he remain- 
 ed in the Palace, neither the Department 
 nor the Municipality of Paris would any 
 longer answer for his safety. The King 
 heard him without emotion, and then 
 retired to his chamber with the Queen, 
 the Ministers, and a few attendants; 
 whence he soon returned to go with his 
 Family to the Assembly. He was attend- 
 ed by a detachment of Swiss and Na- 
 tional Guards. None of the attendants, 
 except the Princess de Lamballe and the 
 Marchioness de Tourzel, who was gover- 
 ness of the children of France, were 
 permitted to follow the Royal Family. 
 The Marchioness de Tourzel, that she 
 might not be separated from the young 
 Prince, was obliged to leave her daugh- 
 B 2
 
 ter, then seventeen years of age, at the 
 Thuilleries, in the midst of the soldiers. 
 It was now near nine o'clock. 
 
 Compelled to remain in the apart- 
 ments, I awaited with terror the conse- 
 quences of the step the King had taken, 
 and went to a window that looked upon 
 the garden. In about half an hour after 
 the Royal Family had gone to the As- 
 sembly, I saw four heads carried on 
 pikes along the terrace of the Feuillans, 
 towards the building where the Legisla- 
 tive Body was sitting; which was, I be- 
 lieve, the signal for attacking the Palace; 
 for at the same instant there began a 
 dreadful firing of canon and musketry. 
 The Palace was every where pierced 
 with balls and bullets ; and as the King 
 was gone, each endeavoured to take care 
 of himself, but every passage was block^ 
 ed up, and certain death seemed to
 
 ( 13 > 
 
 await us all. I ran from place to place, 
 and finding the apartments and stair- 
 cases already strewed with dead bodies, 
 took the resolution of leaping from one 
 of the windows in the Queen's room 
 down upon the terrace, whence I made 
 across the parterre with the utmost speed 
 to reach the Pont-Tournant:* but a body 
 of Swiss, who had gone before me, were 
 rallying under the trees. Finding my-* 
 self between two fires, I ran back in or- 
 der to gain the new flight of steps lead- 
 ing up to the terrace on the water-side, 
 intending to throw myself over the wall 
 upon the quay, but was prevented by 
 the constant fire that was kept up on 
 the Pont-RoyaL I continued my way on 
 the same side till T came to the Dauphin's 
 
 * A bridge at the bottom of the garden, which, on 
 being turned, cuts off the communication from the ad* 
 joining square, called Place Louis Quinzp.
 
 ( 14 ) 
 
 garden gate, where some Marseillois, 
 who had just butchered several of the 
 Swiss, were stripping them. One of 
 them came up to me with a bloody 
 sword in his hand, saying : " How, ci- 
 " tizen! without arms? take this sword, 
 and help us to kill." However, ano- 
 ther Marseillois seized it. I was, as he 
 observed, without arms, and fortunate- 
 ly in a plain frock ; for if any thing had 
 betrayed my situation in the Palace, I 
 should not have escaped. 
 
 Some of the Swiss, who were pursued, 
 took refuge in an adjoining stable; I 
 concealed myself in the same place. 
 They were soon cut to pieces close to me. 
 On hearing the cries of these wretched 
 victims, M. le Dreux, the master of the 
 house, ran up, and I seized that opportu- 
 nity of going in, where, without know-, 
 ing me, M. le Dreux and his wife invited
 
 c 15 ) 
 
 me to stay till the danger was over. In 
 my pocket were letters and newspapers 
 directed to the Prince Royal, and a card 
 of admission to the Thuilleries, on which 
 my name and the nature of my employ- 
 ment were written ; papers that could not 
 have failed to betray me, and which I 
 had just time to throw away before a 
 body of armed men came into the house, 
 to see if any of the Swiss were concealed 
 in. it. I pretended, by the advice of M. le 
 Dreu.c, to be working at some drawings 
 that were lying on a large table. After a 
 fruitless search, these fellows, their hands 
 tinged with blood, stopt and coolly re- 
 lated the murders of which they had 
 been guilty. I remained at this asylum 
 from ten o'clock in the morning till 
 four in the afternoon, having before my 
 eyes a view of the horrors that were 
 committed at the Place de Louis Quinze.
 
 Of the men, some were continuing the 
 slaughter, and others cutting off the 
 heads of those who were already slain ; 
 while the women, lost to all sense of 
 shame, were committing the most inde- 
 cent mutilations on the dead bodies, 
 from which they tore pieces of flesh, 
 and carried them in triumph. 
 
 In the course of the day, Madame de 
 Rambaut) one of the bed-chamber women 
 to the Dauphin, having escaped with 
 great difficulty from the massacre at the 
 Thuilleries, came for refuge to the 
 house where I was ; but we made signs 
 to each other not to speak. The sons of 
 our hosts, who soon after came in from 
 the National Assembly, informed us 
 that the authority of the King had been 
 suspended, and that he was kept in 
 sight, with the Royal Family, in the 
 
 short-
 
 ( 17 ) 
 
 short-hand writer's box,- so that it was 
 impossible to approach his person. 
 
 On hearing this I would fain have 
 gone home to my wife and children at 
 a country house about five leagues from 
 Paris, where we had lived above two 
 years ; but the barriers were shut, and I 
 also thought myself bound not to desert 
 Madame deRambaut. We agreed therefore 
 to take the road to Versailles, where she 
 resided, and the sons of our host accom- 
 panied us* We crossed the Pont Louis 
 Seizejr which was covered with the na- 
 ked carcases of men already in a state 
 
 * In the original la loge du redafteur du Logographe, a 
 box set apart for the short-hand writers of a paper called 
 the Logographe, which professed to give the debates \word 
 for word. 
 
 t A new bridge near the Thuilleries. 
 G
 
 of putrefaction from the great heat of 
 the weather, and, after many risques, 
 escaped from Paris through an un- 
 guarded breach in the walls. 
 
 In the plain of Crenelle we were met 
 by peasants on horseback, who, threaten- 
 ing us with their arms, called to us from 
 a distance, to stop or that we should have 
 our brains blown out. One of them, 
 taking me for one of the King's Guards-, 
 levelled his piece at me, and was going 
 to fire, when another proposed to take 
 us to the Municipality of Vaugirard, 
 saying : " There's a score of them al- 
 " ready, the harvest will be the greater." 
 At the Municipality our hosts were 
 known, but the Mayor, addressing him- 
 self to me, asked why I was not at my 
 post when the country was in danger ? 
 " Why," said he, " do you quit Paris ? 
 " It has the appearance of bad designs."
 
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 ""Ay, ay," cried the mob, " to pri- 
 
 " son ; away to prison with the Aristo- 
 " crats." I replied that it was for the very 
 purpose of going to my post that I was 
 on the road to Versailles, where I resided, 
 and where my post was, as theirs was at 
 Vaugirard. Madame deRambaut was also 
 interrogated, and our hosts having de- 
 clared that we spoke the truth, we were 
 furnished with passports. 1 have reason 
 to bless GOD that I was not taken to 
 their prison, for they had just before 
 sent thither two and twenty of the 
 King's Guards, who were afterwards re- 
 moved to the Abbaye^ where they were 
 massacred on the second of September 
 following. 
 
 From Vaugirard to Versailles we were 
 continually stopt by patroles, to have our 
 
 * A prison.
 
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 passports examined. Having conducted 
 Madame deRambaut to her relations, I de- 
 layed not a moment to repair to my 
 own family ; but the fall I had received 
 in leaping from the window at the 
 ThuiUeries, the fatigue of walking 
 twelve leagues, and the painful reflec- 
 tions of my mind upon the deplorable 
 events that had just taken place, were 
 too much for me to bear, and threw me 
 into a very high fever. For three days 
 I kept my bed, but my impatience to 
 know the fate of the King surmounted 
 my disorder, and I returned to Paris, 
 
 On my arrival in the evening of the 
 thirteenth, I learnt that the Royal Family 
 were just sent to the Temple after having 
 been detained at the Feuillans since the 
 tenth ; that the King had chosen M. de 
 Chamilly, his first valet de chambre, to 
 wait upon him; and that M, Hue, usher
 
 of the King's chamber, and for whoni 
 the place of the Dauphin's first valet de 
 chambre hao 4 been intended, was to 
 wait upon the young Prince. The 
 Princess de Lcimballe, the Marchioness de 
 Tourzel, and Mademoiselle Pauline 8t 
 Toitrzel had accompanied the Queen; 
 and Madame Thibaut, Madame Bazire, 
 Madame Navarre, and Madame S't. Brice, 
 four of the bedchamber- women, attend* 
 id Her Majesty, the Prince and Pria* 
 cesses. 
 
 I now lost all hope of continuing with 
 the Dauphin, and was going to return 
 into the country, When, on the sixteenth 
 day of the King's confinement, I Was in- 
 formed that every person who was in 
 the Tower with the Royal Family had 
 been taken up in the night ; that after 
 being examined before the Council of 
 the Commune of Paris, they had been
 
 all sent to 'the prison de la Force, except 
 M. Hue, who was carried back to the 
 Temple to attend upon the King ; and 
 that Petim, then Mayor, was commis- 
 sioned to point out two persons more. 
 Upon this intelligence I determined to 
 try every means to recover my place 
 about the Prince, and went to Petion\ 
 who said that as I belonged to the King's 
 household I should not be able to obtain 
 the consent of the Council General of 
 the Commune ; but on my citing the 
 instance of M. Hue, who had just been 
 sent by the same council to attend upon 
 the King, he promised to support a me- 
 morial which I put into his hands : how- 
 ever, I observed to him that it would be 
 first necessary to inform the King of the 
 step I had taken, and two days after- 
 wards he wrote to His Majesty in the 
 following terms ;
 
 " SIRE, 
 
 " The valet de chambre who has at* 
 " tended the Prince Royal from his in- 
 " fancy wishes to be continued in his 
 " service, and as I think it will be agree- 
 " able to you, I have granted his re- 
 " quest," &c. 
 
 His Majesty wrote in answer, that he 
 accepted my service for his Son, and I was 
 accordingly conducted to the Temple. 
 I was searched ; informed of the man- 
 ner in which it was expedled that I should 
 behave ; and the same day, the 26th of 
 August, at eight o'clock in the evening, 
 entered the Tower. 
 
 IT would be difficult for me to de- 
 scribe the impression made upon me by 
 the sight of this august and unfortunate
 
 Family. The Queen first spoke to me, 
 and after some expressions full of good- 
 ness, she added, " You will attend my 
 " son, and concert with M. Hue as to us." 
 I was so overcome, that I could scarcely 
 make an answer. 
 
 At supper, the Queen and the Prin- 
 cesses, who for eight days had been 
 deprived of their female attendants, 
 asked me if I could comb their 
 hair; and when I replied, that I would 
 do any thing they desired, a Municipal 
 Officer came up to me, and told me, 
 loud enough to be heard by all, to be 
 more circumspeft in my replies: an 
 opening that alarmed me. 
 
 For the first eight days of my being 
 at the Temple, I had no communication 
 out of doors, M, Hue being the only 
 
 person
 
 person commissioned to ask for and 
 receive whatever was necessary for the 
 Royal Family, on whom we attended 
 jointly and without distinction. With 
 respect to the King himself, 1 had only 
 to dress him in the morning and roll his 
 hair at night. Perceiving that I was in- 
 cessantly watched by the Municipal Of- 
 ficers, who took umbrage at the slight- 
 est trifle, I very cautiously avoided any 
 indiscretion, which would infallibly have 
 been my ruin. 
 
 On the second of September, there 
 were great tumults about the Temple. 
 The King and the Family having come 
 down as usual to walk in the garden, 
 a Municipal Officer that followed the 
 King, said to one of his associates, " We 
 " were wrong in allowing them to walk 
 " this afternoon." I had taken, notice 
 D
 
 in the morning that the Commissioners 
 from the Municipality were uneasy. 
 They made the Royal Family return in 
 a violent hurry, but they were scarcely 
 assembled in the Queen's chamber, 
 when two of the Officers, who were not 
 on duty at the Tower, came in, one of 
 whom, whose name was Mathieu, for- 
 merly a Capuchin, thus addressed the 
 King: "You are unacquainted, Sir, 
 " with what is passing. The Country 
 " is in the greatest danger, the enemy 
 " have entered Champagne, and the 
 " King of Prussia is marching to Cha- 
 " Ions. You will have to answer for all 
 " the mischief that may follow. We 
 
 4 know that we, our wives and children 
 " must perish, but the people shall be 
 " avenged. You shall be the first to die ; 
 
 ' however, there is yet time and you 
 " may"- Here the King replied, 
 that he had done every thing for the
 
 people, and had nothing to reproach 
 himself with. On which the same fel- 
 low turning to M. Hue, said: " The 
 " Council of the Commune have charg- 
 " ed me to take you into custody." 
 " Whom ?" cried the King." Your 
 " valet de chambre" was the reply. 
 The King desired to know of what 
 crime he was accused, but not being 
 able to obtain information, became the 
 more uneasy for his fate, and recom- 
 mended him with great concern to the 
 two Officers. Seals were put, in the pre- 
 sence of M. ffue, on the small room oc- 
 cupied by him, and he was taken away 
 at six in the evening, after having been 
 twenty days in the Temple. Mathieu, 
 as he was going out, told me to take 
 care how I conduced myself, " For," 
 said he, " it may be your turn next," 
 
 D 2
 
 The King then called me to him, and 
 gave me some papers, which he had 
 received from M. /&*, containing ac- 
 counts of expences. The disturbed looks 
 of the Municipal Officers, and the cla- 
 mours of the populace in the neighbour- 
 hood of the Tower, affected him ex- 
 ceedingly. After the King went to bed, 
 he desired me to sleep near him, and I 
 placed my bed by His Majesty's. 
 
 On the 3d of September, His Majesty, 
 when I was dressing him, asked me if I 
 had heard any news of M. Hue, and if I 
 knew any thing of the commotions in 
 Paris. I told him that in the course of 
 the night I had heard an Officer say the 
 people were going to the prisons ; but I 
 would try if I could learn any thing 
 more. " Take care," said His Majesty, 
 " not to expose yourself, for we should 
 " then be left alone ; and, indeed, I fear
 
 " it is their intention to put strangers 
 " about us." 
 
 At eleven in the forenoon, the King 
 having joined his Family in the Queen's 
 chamber, a Municipal Officer desired 
 me to go up to the King's, where I found 
 Manud and some members of the Com- 
 mune. Manuel asked me what the King 
 had said of M. Hue's being taken away. 
 I answered, that it had made His Majesty 
 very uneasy. " He will come to no harm," 
 said he ; " but I am commanded to inform 
 " the King that he is not to return, but 
 " that the Council will put a person in 
 " his place. You may go and break 
 " this to him." I begged to be excused, 
 adding, that the King desired to see 
 him respecting several things of which 
 the Royal Family stood in great need. 
 Manuel could scarcely prevail upon him- 
 self to go down to the chamber where
 
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 His Majesty was. He communicated 
 the order of the Council of the Com- 
 mune, concerning M. Hue, and informed 
 him that another person wasto.be sent. 
 " By no means," replied the King, " I 
 " will make use of my Son's valet de 
 " chambre, and if the Council object 
 " to that, I will wait upon myself, I am 
 " resolved." His Majesty then men- 
 tioned that the Family were in want of 
 linen, and other cloathing. Manuel said 
 he would go and maj^e it known to the 
 Council, and retired. I asked him, as 
 I conducted him out, if the tumults 
 continued, and his answers excited my 
 apprehensions that the populace might 
 visit the Temple. " You have under- 
 " taken a perilous service," added he, 
 " and I advise you to prepare all your 
 " courage."
 
 At one o'clock, the King and the Fa- 
 mily expressed a desire to walk, but 
 were refused. When they were dining, 
 drums we're heard, and soon after the 
 cries of the populace. The Royal Fa- 
 mily rose from table with great uneasi- 
 ness, and assembled in the Queen's 
 chamber. I went down to dine with 
 Tison and his wife, who were employed 
 for the service of the Tower. 
 
 We were scarcely seated, when a head 
 on the point of a pike was held to the 
 window. Tiso??s wife gave a violent 
 scream, which the murderers supposed 
 to have proceeded from the Queen, and 
 we heard the savages laughing immo- 
 derately. Imagining that Her Majesty 
 was still at dinner, they placed their vic- 
 tim in such a manner that it could 
 not escape her sight. The head was the 
 Princess de Lamballc's, which, though
 
 C 3* ) 
 
 bleeding, was not disfigured, and her 
 fine light hair, still curling, waved 
 round the pike. 
 
 I ran instantly to the King. My coun- 
 tenance was so altered by terror, that it 
 was perceived by the Queen, from 
 whom it was necessary to hide the cause; 
 and I wished to make it known to the 
 King only, or to Madame Elizabeth, but 
 the two Commissioners of the Munici- 
 pality were present. " Why don't you 
 " go and dine ?" said the Queen. I re- 
 plied that I was not well ; and at that 
 moment another Municipal Officer, en- 
 tering the Tower, came and spoke to 
 his associates with an air of mystery. 
 On the King's asking if his Family 
 was in safety, they answered" It has 
 ' been reported that you and your Fa- 
 " mily are gone from the Tower, and 
 
 "the
 
 V. ( 33 ) 
 
 " the people are calling for you to ap- 
 " pear at the window, but we shall not 
 " suffer it, for they ought to show more 
 " confidence in their Magistrates*" 
 
 In the mean time the clamour with- 
 out increased, and insults addressed 
 to the Queen were distinctly heard; 
 when another Municipal Officer came 
 in, followed by four men, deputed by 
 the populace to ascertain whether the 
 Royal Family was, or was not in the 
 Tower. One of them, accoutred in the 
 uniform of the National Guards, with 
 two epaulettes, and a huge sabre in his 
 hand, insisted that the prisoners should 
 show themselves at the windows, but- 
 the Municipal Officers would not allow 
 it : upon which the fellow said to the 
 Queen, in the most indecent manner : 
 " They want to keep you from seeing 
 
 E
 
 ( 34 ; 
 
 de Lamballe's head, which has been 
 brought you that you may know how 
 " the people avenge themselves upon 
 " their tyrants: I advise you to show 
 yourself, if you would not have them 
 come up here." At this threat the 
 Queen fainted away; I flew to support 
 her, and Madame Elizabeth assisted me 
 in placing her upon a chair, while her 
 children, melting into tears, endeavour- 
 ed by their caresses to bring her to her- 
 self. The wretch kept looking on, and 
 the King, with a firm voice, said to him : 
 " We are prepared for every thing, 
 " Sir, but you might have dispensed 
 " with relating this horrible disaster to 
 " the Queen." Their purpose being 
 accomplished, he went away with his 
 companions. 
 
 The Queen coming to herself, 
 gled her tears with those of her children^
 
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 and all the Family removed to Madame 
 Elizabeth's chamber, where the noises 
 of the mob were less heard. I remained 
 a short time in the Queen's, and looking 
 out at the window, through the blinds, 
 I again saw the Princess de Lambalk's 
 head. The person that carried it was 
 mounted upon the rubbish of some 
 houses that were ordered to be pulled 
 down for the purpose of insulating the 
 Tower: another stood behind him, 
 holding the heart of that unfortunate 
 Princess, covered with blood, on the 
 point of a sabre. The crowd being in- 
 clined to force the gate of the Tower, 
 was harangued by a Municipal Officer, 
 named Daujon, and I very distinctly 
 heard him say : " The head of Antoi- 
 " nette does not belong to you ; the De- 
 ft partments have their respective rights 
 " to it ; France has confided these great 
 
 E 2
 
 ( 36 ) 
 
 " culprits to the care of the City of 
 " Paris; and it is your part to assist in 
 " securing them, until the national jus- 
 " tice takes vengeance for the people." 
 He was more than an hour debating with 
 them before he could get them away. 
 
 On the evening of the same day, one 
 of the Commissioners told me that the 
 mob had Attempted to rush in with 
 their four deputies, and to carry into 
 the Tower the body of the Princess de 
 Lamballe, naked and bloody as it had 
 been dragged from the prison de la Force 
 to the Temple : that some Municipal 
 Officers, after struggling with them, 
 had hung a tri-coloured ribbon across 
 the principal gate as a bar against them ; 
 that the Commune of Paris, General 
 Santerre, and the National Assembly had 
 been all called upon in vain for assist- 
 ance to put a stop to designs which no.
 
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 pains were taken to conceal ; and that 
 for six hours it was very doubtful whe- 
 ther the Royal Family would be mas- 
 sacred, or not. In truth, the Faction, 
 was not yet sufficiently powerful; the 
 chiefs, although they were unanimous 
 as to the regicide, were not so as to the 
 means of perpetrating it, and the As- 
 sembly were perhaps willing that any 
 other hands but theirs should be the in- 
 struments of the Conspirators. It struck 
 me as a remarkable circumstance, that 
 the Municipal Officer, after the narrative 
 he gave me, made me pay him five-and- 
 forty sous, which the tri-coloured ribbon 
 had cost. 
 
 At eight in the evening all was calm 
 in the neighbourhood of the Tower, 
 but the same tranquillity was far from 
 reigning throughout Paris, where the 
 massacres were continued for four or
 
 five days. I had an opportunity when 
 the King was going to bed, to tell him 
 of the commotions I had seen, and the 
 particulars I had heard. He asked me 
 which of the Municipal Officers had 
 shown most firmness in defending the 
 lives of his Family ; I mentioned Daujon 
 as having stopped the impetuosity of 
 the people, though nothing was farther 
 from his heart than good will to His 
 Majesty. He did not come to the Tower 
 again for four months, and then the 
 King, recollecting his conducl:, thanked 
 him. 
 
 THE day following was still very me- 
 lancholy from the recolleaions of the 
 preceding one, but the scenes of horror 
 I have been relating, having been fol- 
 lowed with some degree of tranquillity, 
 the Royal Family resumed the uni-
 
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 form mode of life which they had 
 adopted on their arrival at the Temple, 
 That the particulars may be the more 
 easily understood, I shall here give a 
 description of the small Tower, in 
 which the King was then confined. 
 
 It stood with its back against the great 
 Tower, without any interior communi- 
 cation, and formed a long square, 
 flanked by two turrets. In one of these 
 turrets, there was a narrow staircase that 
 led from the first floor to a gallery on 
 the platform: in the other were small 
 rooms answering to each story of the 
 Tower. 
 
 The body of the building was four 
 stories high. The first consisted of an 
 antichamber, a dining-room, and a 
 small room in the turret, where there
 
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 was a library, containing from twelve 
 to fifteen hundred volumes. 
 
 The second story was divided nearly 
 in the same manner. The largest room 
 was the Queen's bedchamber, in which 
 the Dauphin also slept ; the second, 
 which was separated from the Queen's 
 by a small antichamber almost without 
 light, was occupied by Madame Royale 
 and Madame Elizabeth. This cham- 
 ber was the only way to the turret- 
 room on this story, and that turret- 
 room was the only place of office for 
 this whole range of building, being in 
 common for the Royal Family, the Mu- 
 nicipal Officers, and the soldiers. 
 
 The King's apartments were on the 
 third story. He slept in the great room, . 
 and made a study of the turret-closet. 
 
 There
 
 ( 4*- ) 
 
 There was a kitchen separated from the 
 King's chamber by a small dark room, 
 which had been successively occupied 
 by M. de Chamilly and M. Hue, and on 
 which the seals were now fixed. The 
 fourth story was shut up ; and on the 
 ground floor there were kitchens, of 
 which no use was made. 
 
 The King usually rose at six in the 
 morning: he shaved himself, and I 
 dressed his hair; he then went to his 
 reading-room, which being veiy small, 
 the Municipal Officer on duty remained 
 in the bedchamber with the door open, 
 that he might always keep the King in 
 sight. His Majesty continued praying 
 on his knees for five or six minutes, and 
 then read till nine o'clock. In that in- 
 terval, after putting his chamber to 
 rights, and preparing the breakfast, I 
 F
 
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 went down to the Queen, who never 
 opened her door till I arrived, in order 
 to prevent the Municipal Officer from 
 going into her apartment. I dressed the 
 Prince, and combed the Queen's hair, 
 then went and did the same for Madame 
 Royale and Madame Elizabeth. This 
 service afforded one of the opportuni- 
 ties I had of communicating to the 
 Queen and Princesses whatever I learnt; 
 for when they found by a sign that I had 
 something to say, one of them kept the 
 Municipal Officer in talk, to divert his 
 attention. 
 
 At nine o'clock, the Queen, the 
 children, and Madame Elizabeth went up 
 to the King's chamber to breakfast, 
 which having prepared for them, I put 
 the Queen and the Princesses' chambers 
 to rights, with the assistance of Tison and 
 his wife, the only kind of work in which
 
 " V. ' C 43 ) 
 
 they gave me any help. It was not for 
 this service only that these people were 
 placed in the Tower : a more important 
 part was assigned them; they were to 
 observe whatever escaped the vigilance 
 of the Commissioners of the Municipa*- 
 lity, and even to inform against those 
 Officers themselves. They were also 
 doubtless intended to be made useful in 
 the perpetration of whatever crimes 
 might enter into the plan of those who 
 had appointed them; for the woman, 
 who then appeared of a mild disposition, 
 and stood in great awe of her husband, 
 has since betrayed herself in an infamous 
 accusation of the Queen, at the conclu- 
 sion of which she was seized with fits of 
 madness : and as for Tison, who had for- 
 merly been a custom-house officer* of the 
 
 * Cotnmis aux barrieres. 
 F 2
 
 ( 44 ) 
 
 lowest- rank, he was an old fellow of a fe- 
 rocious temper, incapable of pity, and a 
 stranger to every sentiment of humanity. 
 The Conspirators seemed determined to 
 place the most vicious and degraded of 
 mankind near the most virtuous and 
 august. 
 
 At ten o'clock, the King and the Fa- 
 mily went down to the Queen's chamber, 
 and there passed the day. He employed 
 himself in educating his Son, made him 
 recite passages from Corneille and Racine, 
 gave him lessons in geography, and exer- 
 cised him in colouring the rnaps. The 
 Prince's early quickness of apprehen- 
 sion fully repaid the fond cares of the 
 King. He had so happy a memory, that 
 on a map covered over with a blank 
 sheet of paper, he could point out the 
 departments, distri&s, towns, and courses 
 of the rivers. It was the new geography
 
 < 45 ) 
 
 of France, which the King taught him. 
 The Queen, on her part, was employed 
 in the education of her daughter ; and 
 these different lessons lasted till eleven 
 o'clock. The remaining hour till noon 
 was passed in needle-work, knitting, or 
 making tapestry. At noon, the Queen 
 and Princesses retired to Madame Eliza- 
 beth's chamber, to change their dress: 
 no Municipal Officer went in with them. 
 
 At one o'clock, when the weather was 
 fine, the Royal Family were conducted 
 Jto the garden by four Municipal Offi- 
 cers and the Commander of a kgion of 
 the National Guards. A great number 
 of workmen being employed in the 
 Temple, pulling down houses and raising 
 new walls, the only walk allowed was a 
 part of that under the great chestnut- 
 trees. Being permitted to attend on 
 these occassions, I engaged the young 

 
 ( 4$ ) 
 
 Prince to play, sometimes at foot-ball, 
 sometimes at coits, at racing, and other 
 active sports. 
 
 At two, we returned to the Tower, 
 where I served the dinner: at which 
 time Santerre the brewer, who was Com- 
 mander in Chief of the National Guards 
 of Paris, regularly came every day to 
 the Temple, attended by two aid-de- 
 camps. He minutely examined the dif- 
 ferent rooms; the King sometimes spoke 
 to him, but the Queen never. After 
 dinner the Royal Family withdrew to 
 the Queen's chamber, where their Ma- 
 jesties usually played a party of piquet 
 or trictrac ; at which time I went to din- 
 ner. 
 
 At four o'clock, the King lay down 
 for a few minutes, the Family, with 
 books in their hands, sitting round him,
 
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 and keeping profound silence while he 
 slept. What a sight ! a Monarch perse- 
 cuted by hatred and calumny, fallen from 
 his Throne into a prison, yet supported 
 by the purity of his mind, and enjoying 
 the peaceful slumbers of the good. .... 
 His consort, his children and his sister, 
 with reverence contemplating his ma- 
 jestic countenance, whose serenity seem- 
 ed to have increased with misfortune, 
 and on which one might read by antici- 
 pation the bliss he now enjoys. 
 
 A sight, that will never be effaced from 
 my memory. 
 
 On the King's waking, the conversa- 
 tion was resumed ; and he would make 
 me sit by him, while I taught his son to 
 write. The copies I set were chosen by 
 himself from the works of Montesquieu, 
 and other celebrated authors. When 
 this lesson was over, I attended the
 
 young Prince to Madame Elizabeth's 
 chamber, where he played at ball or 
 shuttle-cock. 
 
 In the evening, the Family sat round 
 a table, while the Queen read to them 
 from books of history, or other works 
 proper to instruct and amuse her chil- 
 dren, in which she often, unexpectedly, 
 met with situations correspondent to her 
 own, that gave birth to very afflicting 
 reflections. Madame Elizabeth took the 
 book in her turn, and in this manner 
 they read till eight o'clock. I then gave 
 the Prince his supper in Madame Eliza- 
 beth's chamber, during which the Fa- 
 mily looked on, and the King took plea- 
 sure in diverting the children, by making 
 them guess riddles in a collection of the 
 Mercures de France, which he had found 
 in the library. 
 
 2 After
 
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 After the Dauphin had su pped, I un- 
 dressed him, and the Queen heard him 
 say his prayers : he said one in particu- 
 lar for the Princess de Lamballe* and in 
 another he begged of GOD to protect the; 
 life of the Marchioness de Tourzd, his 
 governess. When the Municipal Offi- 
 cers were too near, the Prince, of his 
 own accord, had the precaution to say 
 these two prayers in a low voice. We 
 were out of their sight only two of 
 three minutes, just before I put him into 
 bed, and if I had any thing to commu- 
 nicate to the Queen, I took that oppor- 
 tunity. I acquainted her with the con- 
 tents of the journals, for though none 
 of them were permitted in the Tower, 
 a newsman, sent on purpose, used to come 
 
 * It is scarcely necessary to observe, that Roman Ca- 
 tholics pray for the souls of the dead. 
 G
 
 ( 50 ) 
 
 every night at seven o'clock, and stand- 
 ing near the wall by the side of the round 
 Tower in the Temple enclosure, cried, 
 several times over, an account of all that 
 had been passing at the National Assem- 
 bly, at the Commune, and in the Armies, 
 Placing myself in the King's reading- 
 room, I listened, and with the advantage 
 of perfed silence, remembered all I 
 heard. 
 
 At nine, the King went to supper; 
 while the Queen and Madame Elizabeth 
 took it in turns to stay with the Dauphin : 
 .and as I carried them whatever they 
 wished from the table, it afforded me 
 another opportunity of speaking to 
 them without witnesses. 
 
 After supper, the King went for a 
 moment to the Queen's chamber, shook
 
 hands with her and his sister for the 
 night, and kissed his children; then 
 going to his own apartment he retired 
 to the turret-room, where he sat reading 
 till midnight. The Queen and the 
 Princesses locked themselves in : and one 
 of the Municipal Officers remained in 
 the little room which parted their cham- 
 bers, where he passed the night; the 
 other followed His Majesty, 
 
 I then made up my bed near the King's; 
 but His Majesty, before he went to rest, 
 waited to know who was the new Muni- 
 pal Officer on duty, and if he had never 
 seen him, commanded me to enquire 
 his name. The Municipal Officers were 
 relieved at eleven o'clock in the morning, 
 five in the afternoon, and at midnight. 
 In this manner was the time passed as 
 long as the King remained in the small 
 
 Q 3
 
 Tower, which was till the 3Oth of Sep- 
 tember. 
 
 I SHALL now resume the order of 
 occurrences. On the 4th of September, 
 Petiojfs secretary came to the Tower, to 
 bring the King a sum of two thousand 
 livres in assignats, for which he obliged 
 him to give a receipt. His Majesty re- 
 quested him to pay M. Hue 526 livres, 
 which he had advanced for his service, 
 and he promised to do it. This sum of 
 two thousand livres was the only pay- 
 ment made, notwithstanding the Legis- 
 lative Assembly had voted 500,000 livres 
 for His Majesty's expences at the Tower 
 of the Temple, though doubtless before 
 they had suspeded, or before they had 
 dared to engage in the real designs of
 
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 Two days after, Madame Elizabeth 
 desired me to collect some trifling things 
 belonging to the Princess de Lamballe, 
 which she had left at the Tower when 
 she was carried off. I made them up 
 into a parcel, which I directed with 
 a letter to her chief wait ing- woman : 
 and I have since learnt that neither the 
 parcel nor the letter were ever delivered. 
 
 At this period, the characters of the 
 greater part of the Municipal Officers 
 picked out. for the Temple, showed 
 what sort of men had been employed 
 for the Revolution of the loth of Au- 
 gust, and for the massacres of the second 
 of September. 
 
 One of them named James, a teacher 
 of the English language, took it into 
 his head one day to follow the King in- 
 to his closet, and to sit down by him.
 
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 His Majesty mildly told him that there 
 his colleagues had always left him by 
 himself, that as the door stood open 
 he could never be out of his sight, but 
 that the room was too small for two. James 
 persisted in a harsh and brutal manner ; 
 the King was forced to submit, and 
 giving up his course of reading for that 
 day, returned to his chamber, where 
 the Municipal Officer continued to beset 
 him with the most tyrannical superin- 
 tendance, 
 
 One morning when the King rose, he 
 thought the Commissioner on duty was 
 the same who had been upon guard the 
 evening before, and expressed some con- 
 cern that he had not been relieved ; but 
 this mark of goodness was only answer- 
 ed with insults. " 1 come here," said 
 the man, " to watch your conduct, and 
 * not for you to busy yourself with
 
 ( 55 ) 
 
 ts mine." Then going up close to His 
 Majesty, with his hat on his head, lie 
 continued : u Nobody has a right to 
 " meddle with it, and you less than any 
 " one else." He was insolent the whole 
 day. ! have since learnt that his name 
 was Meunier. 
 
 Another Commissioner whose name 
 Was Le Clerc, a physician, being in the 
 Queen's chamber when I was teaching 
 the Prince to write, interrupted him to 
 pronounce a discourse on the republi- 
 can education which it was necessary 
 to give the Dauphin, and he want- 
 ed to change the books he was studying 
 for works of the most revolutionary na- 
 ture. 
 
 A fourth was present when the Queen 
 was reading to her children from a vo- 
 lume of the History of France, at the
 
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 period when the Constable de Bourbon 
 took up arms against France. He pre- 
 tended that the Queen meant by this to 
 instill into the mind of her son ideas of 
 vengeance against his Country, and laid 
 a formal information against it before 
 the Council : which I made known to 
 Her Majesty, who afterwards selected 
 subjects that could not be. taken hold of 
 to calumniate her intentions. 
 
 A man named Simon, shoemaker and 
 Municipal Officer, was one of the six 
 Commissioners appointed to inspect the 
 works and expences at the Temple. 
 He was the only one, who, under pre- 
 tence of attending rigidly to his duty, 
 never quitted the Tower. This man 
 whenever he appeared in the presence 
 of the Royal Family always treated 
 them with the vilest insolence; and 
 
 would
 
 ( 57 ) ; ; 
 
 would frequently say to me so near the 
 King as to be heard by him : " Clery, 
 " ask Capet if he wants any thing, that 
 " I mayn't have the trouble of coming 
 " up twice." I was obliged to answer 
 that he wanted nothing. This is the 
 same Simon to whose care the young 
 Louis was afterwards consigned, and 
 who by a systematic barbarity prolonged 
 the torments of that amiable and un- 
 fortunate child : there is also great rea- 
 son to believe that he was the instrument 
 made use of to shorten his days. 
 
 In teaching the young Prince to ci- 
 pher I had made a multiplication table, 
 according to directions given by the 
 Queen, which a Municipal Officer pre- 
 tended was a means she took to teach 
 her son how to correspond by secret 
 H
 
 ( 58 ) 
 
 signs, and he was obliged to give up the 
 study of arithmetic. 
 
 The saifte thing had happened with 
 respect to the tapestry which the Queen 
 and Madame Elizabeth had worked on 
 their being first confined. Having 
 finished some chair backs, the Queen 
 ordered me to send them to the Du- 
 chess de Serent; but the Municipal 
 Officers, whose leave I asked, thought 
 that the designs contained hieroglyphics 
 for the purpose of corresponding, and, 
 in consequence, obtained an order, by 
 which it was forbidden to suffer the 
 works of the Queen and Princesses to bfc 
 sent out of the Tower. 
 
 There were some of the Municipal 
 Officers who never spoke of any of the 
 Royal Family without the addition of 
 the most insulting epithets. One of
 
 ( 59s >, 
 
 them named Tut-lot^ one day said in my 
 hearing : " If no executioner could be 
 
 " found to guillotine this d d Family, 
 
 44 I would guillotine them myself." 
 
 When the King and Family went to 
 walk they had to pass by a. number oif 
 sentries, of which even at that period, 
 there were several stationed within the 
 small Tower. The soldiers on duty 
 presented their arms to the Municipal 
 Officers and Commanders of the Le^ 
 gions, but when the King approached 
 them, they grounded their firelocks, or 
 clubbed them ludicrously. 
 
 One of the soldiers within, wrote one 
 day on the King's chamber door, and 
 that too on the inside: The guillo- 
 tine is permanent, and ready for the ty- 
 rant Louis XVI. Tbe King read 
 H ^
 
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 the words, which I made an attempt 
 to rub out, but His Majesty prevented 
 me, 
 
 One of the door-keepers of the Tower, 
 whose name was Rocher, a man of a 
 horrid figure, accoutred as a pioneer, 
 with long whiskers, a black hairy cap, 
 a huge sabre, and a belt, to which hung 
 a bunch of great keys, came up to the 
 door when the King wanted to go out, 
 but did not open it till His Majesty wa$ 
 quite close, when, pretending to search 
 for the key among the many he had, 
 which he rattled in a terrible manner, 
 he designedly kept the Royal Family 
 waiting, and then drew the bolts with a 
 great clatter. After doing this, he ran 
 down before them, and fixing himself 
 on one side of the last door, with a long 
 pipe in his mouth, puffed the fumes of 
 bis tobacco at each of the Royal Family
 
 as they went out, and most at the Queen 
 and Princesses. Some National Guards, 
 who were amused with these indignities, 
 came about him, burst into fits of laugh- 
 ter at every puff of smoke, and used 
 the grossest language ; some of them 
 went so far as to bring chairs from the 
 guard-room to sit and enjoy the sight, 
 obstructing the passage, of itself suffi- 
 ciently narrow. 
 
 While the Family were walking, the 
 engineers assembled to dance and sing : 
 their songs were always revolutionary, 
 sometimes also obscene. 
 
 The same indignities were repeated 
 on their return. The walls were fre- 
 quently covered with the most indecent 
 scrawls, in large letters, that they 
 might not escape notice. Among others 
 were Madame Veto shall swing.- We
 
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 shall find a way of bringing down the 
 
 great hog's fat. Down with the red rib* 
 
 b OHt The little wolves must be strangled. 
 
 Under a gallows, with a figure 
 
 hanging were these words : Louis 
 taking an air bath - And under a 
 guillotine: Louis spitting in the bags* or 
 other similar ribaldry. 
 
 Thus was the short airing allowed to 
 the Family turned into torture. This 
 the King and Queen might have avoid- 
 ed, by remaining within; but the air 
 was necessary for their children, whom 
 they most tenderly loved, and for their 
 sakes it was, that their Majesties daily 
 
 * Crachant dans le sac literally, spitting in the sack : 
 this is a vulgar phrase alluding to the position of a person 
 an the guillotine looking upon a little bag placed at the end 
 to receive the head.
 
 ( 63 ) 
 
 endured, without complaining, these 
 endless affronts. 
 
 A few instances, however, of fidelity 
 or feeling occured at times to soften the 
 horror of these persecutions, and were 
 the more striking from being uncom- 
 mon. 
 
 As I was sitting alone reading in the 
 antichamber next the Queen's room, the 
 sentinel on guard at her door, an inha- 
 bitant of the suburbs, dressed neatly, 
 but in plain country cloaths, eyed me 
 with much attention and appeared 
 greatly moved. I got up to pass by him, 
 on which he presented his arms, and, 
 with a trembling voice, said: " You 
 
 " must not go out."- " Why not ?" 
 
 " I am ordered to keep you in sight." 
 
 " You are mistaken," said I. 
 
 " What! Sir, are you not the King?"-
 
 ( 64 ) 
 
 * Don't you know him then?" " I 
 
 " never saw him in my life, Sir ; and 
 " wish, with all my heart, I could see 
 " hirri any where rather than here*"- 
 " Speak low: I am going into that 
 " room, and will leave the door a jar, 
 " that you may see the King : he is sit- 
 " ting near the window, with a book in 
 " his hand." I made the sentinel's wish 
 known to the Queen ; and the King, on 
 her informing him of it, had the good- 
 ness to walk from one room to the 
 other that he might have a view of him. 
 When I went back " Ah! Sir," said he, 
 " how good is the King ! how fond of 
 " his children!" He had seen him 
 through the door caressing them, and 
 was so affe6ted as to be hardly able to 
 speak. " No," continued he, striking 
 his breast, " I can never believe he has 
 " done us so much harm." I here 1 left 
 
 him,
 
 .( 65 ) 
 
 him, fearing that his extreme agitation 
 would betray him* 
 
 Another sentinel at the end of the 
 walk, who was very young, and of an 
 interesting figure, showed by his looks a 
 desire to give the Royal Family some 
 intelligence. Madame Elizabeth, in tak- 
 ing the second turn, went up to him, 
 that he might have an opportunity of 
 speaking ; but whether through fear or 
 respect, he did not attempt it : his eyes, 
 however, were full of tears, and he 
 made a sign that he had lodged a paper 
 in the rubbish, near the place where he 
 was standing. I went and looked for it, 
 pretending to pick out stones for the 
 Prince to play with at coits, but the 
 Municipal Officers coming up made me* 
 retire, and forbade me ever again going 
 I 

 
 ( 66 ) 
 
 so near the sentinels. I never knew what 
 were the intentions of this young man* 
 
 During the hour allowed for walking, 
 another kind of sight was presented to 
 the Family, that often awakened their 
 sensibility. Many of their faithful sub- 
 jets, placing themselves at the windows 
 of the houses round the garden of the 
 Temple, took the opportunity of this 
 short interval to see their King and 
 Queen, and it was impossible to be de- 
 ceived in their sentiments and their 
 wishes. I once thought I could distin- 
 guish the Marchioness de Tourzel, and I 
 was the more convinced of it from the 
 extreme attention with which the person 
 ^followed the Dauphin with her eyes, 
 when he ran to any distance from their 
 Majesties. I made the observation to 
 Madame Elizabeth, who could not re- 
 frain from tears at the name of Madame
 
 (67 ) 
 
 de Tourzel, believing her to be one of the 
 victims of the second of September. 
 " What !" said she, " can she be still 
 " alive ?" The next day, however, I 
 found means to get information that the 
 Marchioness de Tourzel was at one of her 
 estates in the country, 
 
 I found also that the Princess de Tarente, 
 and the Marchioness de la Roche- Aimont, 
 who were at the Palace of the Thuille- 
 rieswhen it was attacked on the loth of 
 August, had escaped the assassins. The 
 safety of these ladies, who on so many 
 occasions had manifested their attach- 
 ment, afforded the Royal Family some 
 moments of consolation ; but they 
 very soon after heard the horrid news 
 of the prisoners from the High Court 
 of Orleans having been massacred on 
 the Qth of September at Versailles, The 
 I a
 
 ( 68 > v ; 
 
 King was overwhelmed with sorrow at 
 the unfortunate fate of the Duke de 
 Brissac, who had never forsaken him a 
 single clay from the beginning of the 
 Revolution. His Majesty also grieved 
 exceedingly for M. de Lessart, and the 
 other interesting victims of their attach- 
 ment to his person and their country. 
 
 ON the 2 ist of September, at four 
 o'clock in the afternoon, one Lubin, a 
 Municipal Officer, attended by horse- 
 men and a great mob, came before the 
 Tower to make a proclamation. Trum- 
 pets were sounded, and a dead silence 
 ensued. Lubiii's voice was of the Sten- 
 torian kind. The Royal Family could 
 distinctly hear the proclamation of the 
 abolition of Royalty, and of the esta- 
 blishment of a Republic. Ilcbcrt, so 
 well known by the name of Plre d
 
 Chesnc, and Destournelles, since made 
 Minister of the Public Contributions, 
 were then on guard over the Family: 
 they were sitting at the time near the 
 door, and stared the King in the face 
 with a malicious grin. The Monarch 
 perceived it, but, having a book in his 
 hand, continued to read, without suf- 
 fering the smallest alteration to appear 
 upon his countenance. The Queen dis- 
 played equal resolution: not a word, 
 not a gesture escaped either of them to 
 increase the malignant enjoyment of 
 those men. At the end of the procla- 
 mation the trumpets, sounded, again, 
 and I went to one of the windows : the 
 eyes of the populace were immediately 
 turned upon me; I was taken for my 
 Royal Master, and overwhelmed with 
 abuse. The horsemen made menacing 
 igns with their sabres, and I was obliged
 
 ( 70 ) 
 
 to withdraw to put an end to the tu- 
 mult. 
 
 The same evening I informed the 
 King, that curtains and more cloaths 
 were wanting for the Dauphin's bed, as 
 the weather began to be cold. He de- 
 sired me to write the demand for them, 
 which he signed. I used the same ex- 
 pressions I had hitherto done The 
 King requires for his son, and so forth, 
 " It is a great piece of assurance in 
 " you," said Destournelles, " thus to 
 " use a title, abolished by the will of 
 " the people, as you have just heard." 
 J observed to him that I had heard a pro- 
 clamation, but was unacquainted with 
 the objeft of it. " It is," replied he, 
 *' the abolition of Royalty ; and you 
 *' may tell the gentleman" pointing to 
 the King, " to give over taking a title, 
 * no longer acknowledged by the people,''
 
 ( 71 ) 
 
 I told him I could not alter this note, 
 which was already signed, as the King 
 would ask me the reason, and it was not 
 my part to tell it him. " You will do as 
 " you like," continued he, " but I shall 
 " not certify Che demand." The next 
 day, Madame Elizabeth gave me orders 
 to write in future, for things of this kind, ' 
 in the following style : Suck articles arc 
 wanted for the use of Louis XVI* . . . of 
 Marie Antoinette. . . . of Louis Charles. . . , 
 of Marie Therese. . . . of Marie ElizabetJi. 
 
 I had before been often under the ne- 
 cessity of repeating these demands* The 
 small quantity of linen, brought to the 
 Tower by the King and Queen, had 
 been lent to them by some persons of 
 the Court,--- while they were at the Feuil- 
 
 * The Countess of Sutherland, Lady of the English 
 Ambassador, found means to convey to the Queen some
 
 kns. Not any had been saved. from the 
 Thuilleries, where on the fatal loth of 
 August all had been given up to pillage, 
 Indeed, the Family was so much in 
 want of cloaths in general, that the 
 Princesses were employed in mending 
 them every day, and Madame Elizabeth 
 was often obliged to wait till the King 
 was gone to bed, in order to have his 
 to repair. At last, after many applica- 
 tions, I obtained the grant of a little 
 new linen, but the sempstresses having 
 marked it with crowns above the letters, 
 the Municipal Officers insisted upon 
 
 linen and other necessary articles for the young Prince. 
 Her Majesty ordered me afterwards to send them back to 
 the Countess, desiring me to write a letter, on her part, 
 expressing her thanks ; the Queen being at that time de- 
 barred from ink ami paper. The Municipal Officers, 
 however, would not allow them to ,be sent, but kept the 
 linen and the other things. 
 
 the
 
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 the Princesses picking out the crowns : 
 and they were forced to obey* 
 
 On the 26th of September, I learnt, 
 through a Member of the Municipality, 
 that it was intended to separate the King 
 from his Family, and that the apart- 
 ment preparing for him in the great 
 Tower would soon be ready. I broke 
 this new tyranny to the King in the 
 most wary manner possible, and ex- 
 pressed how much I had felt at being 
 forced to afflict him. " You cannot," 
 said His Majesty, " give me a greater 
 " proof of your attachment ; I require 
 " it of your affection, that you should 
 " hide nothing from me; I expect all 
 " that can happen : endeavour to gain 
 " intelligence of the day when this pain- 
 " ful separation is to take place, and let 
 " me know it." 
 
 K
 
 ( 74 ) 
 
 On the 2Qth of September, at ten 
 o'clock in the morning, five or six Mu- 
 nicipal Officers walked into the Queen's 
 chamber, where the Royal Family were 
 assembled. One of them, whose name 
 was Charbonnier, read to the King a de- 
 cree of the Council, ordering that 
 " paper, pens, ink, pencils, knives, and 
 " even papers written upon, whether 
 " found on the persons of the prisoners, 
 " or in their rooms, or on the valet de 
 " chambre, or others serving in the 
 
 " Tower, should be taken away." 
 
 " And whenever," added he from him- 
 self, " you may want any thing, Clerymsy 
 " go down and write what you require 
 "in a register that will be kept in the 
 " Council Chamber." The King and 
 the whole Family gave up their papers, 
 pencils, and the contents of their pockets, 
 without making a reply. The Com- 
 missioners then searched the rooms and
 
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 closets, and took away the things point- 
 ed out by the decree. I now learnt from 
 a Member of this deputation, that 
 on that very night the King was to 
 be removed to the great Tower ; and I 
 found means of informing His Majesty 
 of it by Madame Elizabeth. 
 
 In fa<5t, after supper, as the King was 
 leaving the Queen's chamber to go up 
 to his own, a Municipal Officer bade 
 him stop, the Council having some- 
 thing to communicate to him. A quar- 
 ter of an hour afterwards the six Offi- 
 cers, who in the morning had taken 
 away the papers, came in and read a 
 second decree of the Commune to the 
 King, ordering his removal to the great 
 Tower. Although prepared for this 
 event, he was again affecled in the most 
 lively manner : his disconsolate Family, 
 K 2
 
 ( 76 ) 
 
 endeavoured to read in the looks of the 
 Commissioners how far their designs 
 were intended to be carried. The King 
 left them in the most cruel state of 
 alarm at bidding him adieu; and this 
 separation, which portended so many 
 other calamities, was the most cruel 
 suffering their Majesties had hitherto 
 experienced in the Temple. I attended 
 the King to his new prison, 
 
 THE King's apartment in the great 
 Tower was not finished. A solitary bed 
 was its only furniture. The painters 
 and paper-hangers were still at work in 
 it, which left an insufferable smell, and 
 I feared it would have incommoded His 
 Majesty. The room intended for me 
 was at a very great distance from the 
 King's. I begged most earnestly to be 
 placed near him, and passed the first
 
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 night in a chair by his bed side. The 
 next day the King prevailed, though 
 with much difficulty, to get me a cham- 
 ber contiguous to his own. 
 
 After His Majesty had risen, I wanted 
 to go to the small Tower to dress the 
 Prince, but the Municipal Officers ob- 
 jected. One of them whose name was 
 Ve ron, said to me : " You are to have 
 " no more communication with the pri- 
 " soners, nor is your master either ; he 
 *' is not even to see his children again." 
 
 At nine o'clock, the King desired to be 
 shown to his Family. " We have no 
 " such orders," said the Commissioners, 
 His Majesty made some observations, to 
 which they gave no answer. 
 
 Half an hour afterwards two Munici- 
 pal Officers came in, followed by a ser-
 
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 vant boy, who brought the King a roll 
 and a small decanter of lemonade for his 
 breakfast. His Majesty expressed his 
 desire to dine with his Family. They 
 answered, that they would apply to the 
 Commune for orders. But," added 
 the King, " let my valet de chambre go 
 " down, he has the care of my son, and 
 " there can be no reason to prevent his 
 "continuing to attend upon him." 
 " That does not depend upon us," 
 said the Commissioners, and went away. 
 
 I was then in a corner of a chamber, 
 overwhelmed with grief, and absorbed 
 in the most heart-rending reflections on 
 the lot of this august Family. On one 
 hand, I saw before me the pangs of my 
 Royal Master ; and on the other, I re- 
 presented to myself the young Prince 
 delivered over, perhaps, to strange hands ; 
 for it had already been said that he was
 
 ( 79-) 
 
 | to be taken from their Majesties: and 
 what fresh tortures would not such a se- 
 paration occasion to the Queen ? I was 
 engrossed with these painful ideas, when 
 the King came up to me, with the roll, 
 that had been brought him, in his hand: 
 
 he presented half of it to me, saying : 
 
 ' It seems they have forgotten your 
 " breakfast ; take this : the remainder is 
 " enough for me." I excused myself, 
 but he insisted upon it. It was impossi- 
 ble for me to restrain my tears, the King 
 perceived it, and gave way to his own. 
 
 At ten o'clock, some other Members 
 of the Municipality brought the work- 
 men to continue their employment in 
 I the room. One of these Officers told the 
 !King that he had just been present while 
 the Family were at breakfast, and that 
 jthey were very well. " I thank you," 
 replied the King, " pray remember me
 
 ( 8o ) 
 
 " to them, and say, that I too am well. 
 " May I not," added he, " have some 
 books which I left in the QueenV 
 " chamber? I would thank you for 
 " them, as I have nothing to read." 
 His Majesty described the books he want- 
 ed, and the Officer complied with his re- 
 quest, but not being able to read, he de- 
 sired I would go with him. I congratu- 
 lated myself on this man's ignorance, 
 and blessed Providence for this consola- 
 tory moment. The King gave me some 
 orders, and his looks spoke the rest. 
 
 I found the Queen in her chamber, 
 with her children and Madame Elizabeth 
 about her. They were all weeping, 
 and their grief increased on seeing me. 
 They immediately asked me a thousand 
 questions about the King, which I was 
 forced to answer with reserve. The 
 
 Queen,
 
 Queen, addressing the Officers who had 
 accompanied me, again urged her re- 
 quest of being permitted to see the 
 King, if it were but for a few moments 
 in the day, and at their meals. It was 
 no longer weeping and sighing ; it was 
 the loud cry of sorrow. " Well then, 
 " they shall dine together to-day," said 
 one of the Officers, " but as we must be 
 " ruled by the decrees of the Com- 
 " mune, we will act to-morrow accord- 
 
 " ing as they shall prescribe." To 
 
 this his associates consented. 
 
 At the very idea of being again with 
 the King, a sensation, almost amount- 
 ing to joy, seemed to re-animate this 
 unfortunate Family. The Queen, fold- 
 ing her children in her arms, and Ma- 
 dame Elizabeth, raising her hands to 
 Heaven, thanked GOD for the unlook- 
 L
 
 ed for happiness. It was a most affecting 
 sight, and even some of the Municipal 
 Officers could not refrain from tears: 
 they were the only tears I ever saw shed 
 by any of them in this horrid abode. 
 One of them, it was Simon the shoe- 
 maker, said, loud enough to be heard : 
 
 " I believe these b s of women 
 
 " would make me cry." Then, turning 
 to the Queen, he added : " When you 
 " were assassinating the people on the 
 " loth of August, you did not cry at 
 
 " all." " The people," replied the 
 
 Queen, " are grossly deceived as to our 
 " feelings." 
 
 I theji took the books which the 
 King had desired to have, and carried 
 them to him; the Municipal Officers 
 accompanying me, to let His Majesty 
 know that he should be allowed to see 
 Jiis Family, I then asked them if I
 
 ( 83 ) 
 
 might go and wait upon the Queen, the 
 Dauphin and Princesses, to which they 
 consented : and I thus had an opportu- 
 nity of informing Her Majesty of what 
 had passed, and all that the King had suf- 
 fered since he left her. 
 
 The dinner was served up in the 
 King's room, whither the Family re- 
 paired, and it was easy to judge of the 
 fears that had agitated their minds, by 
 the emotions that burst forth on this 
 meeting. Nothing more was heard of" 
 the decree of the Commune, and His 
 Majesty continued not only to meet his 
 Family at meals, but to join them in 
 their walks. 
 
 After dinner, the Queen was shown 
 the apartment preparing for her above 
 the King's : she intreated the workmen 
 L 2
 
 ( 84 ) 
 
 to finish it quickly, but they were three 
 weeks longer at work upon it. 
 
 IN that interval, I continued my at- 
 tendance on their Majesties, and also on' 
 the Dauphin and the Princesses: they 
 spent their time much in the same way 
 as before. The King's attention to the 
 education of his son met with no inter- 
 ruption ; but the Royal Family's resid- 
 ing thus in two separate Towers, by 
 rendering the superintendance of the 
 Municipal Officers more difficult, ren- 
 dered them also more vigilant. The 
 number of the Municipal Officers were 
 augmented ; and their jealousy left me 
 very few means of getting intelligence 
 of what was passing abroad : the follow- 
 ing were the methods I took for that 
 purpose.
 
 I 8 5 ) 
 
 Under pretence of having linen and 
 other necessary articles brought me, I 
 obtained permission that my wife should 
 come to the Temple once a week : she 
 was always accompanied by one of her 
 friends, a lady who passed for her rela- 
 tion. Nobody could evince greater at- 
 tachment for the Royal Family than did 
 this lady, by her actions, and by the 
 risks she ran on several occasions. On 
 their arrival, I was called down to the 
 Council Chamber, where, however, I 
 could speak to them only in the presence 
 of the Municipal Officers: we were 
 closely watched, and at several of the 
 first visits I could not find an opportu- 
 nity to my purpose. I then gave them 
 to understand that they should come at 
 one o'clock : that was the hour of walk-' 
 ing, during which the greater part of 
 the Municipal Officers were following 
 the Royal Family: there used then to
 
 ( B6 ) 
 
 be but one of them remaining in the 
 Council Chamber, and when this hap- 
 pened to be a civil man, he left us a little 
 more at liberty, still, however, without 
 losing sight of us. 
 
 Having thus an opportunity of speak- 
 ing without being overheard, T made 
 enquiries respecting those for whom the 
 Royal Family interested themselves, and 
 gained information of what was passing 
 at the Convention. The circumstance 
 of the newsman, whom I have mention- 
 ed, proved to be a projecSl of my wife's, 
 who had employed him to come every 
 day under the walls of the Temple, and 
 cry repeatedly the contents of the Jour- 
 nals. 
 
 In addition to my intelligence thus 
 obtained, I contrived to procure a little 
 more, from some of the Officers them-
 
 selves, and I was particularly assisted by 
 a person of great fidelity, whose name 
 was Turgi, a Groom of the King's kit- 
 chen, wto, from attachment to His 
 Majesty, had found means of getting 
 himself employed at the Temple, with 
 two of his comrades, Marchand and Chre- 
 tien. These brought the dishes for the 
 table of the Royal Family, dressed in a 
 kitchen at a considerable distance ; and 
 were also employed in marketing; so 
 that Turgi, who shared that office with 
 them, going out of the Temple in his 
 turn, twice or thrice a week, had it in 
 his power to gain information of what 
 was passing. The difficulty was how I 
 should be made acquainted with it ; for 
 he was forbidden to speak to me except 
 upon his business, and that always in 
 presence of the Municipal Officers. 
 When he had any thing to say, he made 
 a sign agreed upon, and I then
 
 ( 88 ) 
 
 strove to detain him under various pre- 
 tences. Sometimes I begged him to dress 
 my hair, during which Madame Eliza- 
 beth, who knew of my understanding 
 with Turgi, kept the Municipal Officers 
 talking, so that I had time enough for 
 our conversations : sometimes I con- 
 trived an opportunity of his going to 
 my chamber, of which he availed him- 
 self to put the Journals, Memorials, 
 and other publications he had for me, 
 under my bed. 
 
 When the King or the Queen wished 
 for intelligence, if the day of my wife's 
 coming happened to be distant, I gave 
 the commission to Turgi. If it was not his 
 turn to go out, I pretended to want some- 
 thing for the use of the Royal Family : 
 on which he would reply" Another 
 
 " day will do." Very well," I used 
 
 to
 
 to answer, with an air of indifference, 
 " the King will wait." My object was 
 to induce the Municipal Officers to order 
 him out, which frequently happened, 
 and then the same evening or next morn- 
 ing, he gave me the particulars I wanted. 
 We had agreed upon this mode of un- 
 derstanding one another, but took care 
 not to repeat the same methods before 
 the same Commissioners. 
 
 Still fresh obstacles were to be sur- 
 mounted before I could impart the in- 
 telligence to the King. The only time 
 I had to speak to him was when they 
 were relieving the Municipal Officers, 
 and as he went to bed. Sometimes, 
 I caught a moment in the morning, be- 
 fore the Commissioners were ready to 
 make their appearance. I showed no 
 inclination to go in till they did, only so 
 M
 
 ( 9 ) 
 
 as to let them know that His Majesty 
 was waiting for me. If they allowed 
 me to go in, I immediately drew his 
 curtains, and whik I put on his stockings 
 and shoes, spoke without being seen or 
 heard : but I was more frequently dis- 
 appointed in my hope, for the Munici- 
 pal Officers generally compelled me to 
 stay till they were dressed, that they 
 might go with me into His Majesty's 
 room, Several of them treated me with 
 harshness: some ordered me in the 
 morning to remove their beds, and 
 forced me at night to bring them back ; 
 others were incessantly taunting me: 
 but this conduct afforded me fresh means 
 of being useful to their Majesties : by 
 returning only mildness and civility I 
 gained upon them in spite of their na- 
 tures, and infusing a confidence into 
 jninds, unperceived by themselves,
 
 I often managed to colle<5l even from 
 the m the information I wanted. 
 
 Such was the plan I had been pursuing 
 with the greatest caution from my arri- 
 rival at the Temple, when an event as 
 extraordinary as unexpected made me 
 fear that I should be for ever separated 
 from the Rtfyal Family. 
 
 One evening, about six o'clock, it was 
 the 5th of October, after having seen 
 the Queen to her apartment, I was re- 
 turning to the King's with two Munici- 
 pal Officers, when the sentinel at the 
 great guard-house door, taking me by 
 the arm, and calling me by my name, 
 asked me how I did, and said with an 
 air of mystery, that he wished very 
 much to speak to me. " Sir," cried I, 
 " speak out ; I am not allowed to whis- 
 M 2
 
 ( 9* ) 
 
 per with any body."" I was assured," 
 replied the sentinel, " that the King had 
 " lately been thrown into a dungeon, and 
 " you with him."" You see it is not 
 " so," said I ; and left him. There was 
 one Officer walking before and another 
 behind me : the former stopt and heard 
 us. 
 
 Next morning, two Commissioners 
 waited for me at the door of the Queen's 
 apartment : they oondu&ed me to the 
 Council Chamber, where I was exa- 
 mined by the Municipal Officers there 
 assembled. I reported the conversation 
 exa6lly as it had passed, which was con- 
 firmed by the Officer who had heard it : 
 the other alleclged that the sentinel had 
 given me a paper, that he had heard 
 the rumpling of it, and that it was a 
 letter for the King. I denied thefaft; 
 desiring they would search me, and take
 
 ( 93 ) 
 
 all means of satisfying themselves. A 
 minute of the sitting of the Council 
 was drawn up, I was confronted with 
 the sentinel, who was sentenced to be 
 confined for four and twenty hours. 
 
 I supposed this affair at an end, when, 
 on the 26th of O&ober, while the Royal 
 Family were at dinner, a Municipal Of- 
 ficer walked in, followed by six soldiers 
 with drawn sabres, together with a clerk 
 of the rolls, and a tipstaff, both in their 
 official dress. I was terrified least they 
 should be come for the the King. The 
 Royal Family all rose, and the King 
 asked what they wanted with him, but 
 the Officer, without replying, called 
 me into another room : the soldiers fol- 
 lowed us, and the clerk having read a 
 warrant to arrest me, I was seized in or- 
 der to be taken before the tribunal. I 
 begged permission to inform the King
 
 ( 94 ; 
 
 of it, and was answered that I was no 
 longer at liberty to speak to him " But 
 " you may take a shirt," added the Offi- 
 cer, " it won't be a long business." I 
 thought I understood him, and took 
 only my hat. I passed by the King and 
 the Royal Family, who were standing, 
 and in consternation at the manner in 
 which I was taken away. The populace 
 assembled in the Temple Court, heaped 
 abuse upon me, calling out for my head. 
 They were told by one of the National 
 Guards that it was necessary to save my 
 life, in order to discover secrets which I 
 alone knew. The same vociferations, 
 however, continued all the way. 
 
 The moment we arrived at the Palais 
 de Justice, I was' confined alone, there I 
 remained six hours, endeavouring in 
 vain to find out what could be the mo- 
 tives for my being arrested. All I could
 
 ( 95 ) 
 
 bring to my mind was, that on the 
 morning of the loth of August, during 
 the attack on the Thuilleries, some per- 
 sons, who were there and wished to 
 make their way out, begged me to hide 
 several valuable articles and papers that 
 might have betrayed them, in a chest 
 of drawers that belonged to me : I sus- 
 pe&ed that these papers had been seized, 
 and would now, perhaps, cost me my 
 life. 
 
 At eight o'clock, I appeared before 
 the Judges, who were unknown to me. 
 This was a revolutionary tribunal, ereft- 
 ed on the iyth of August, in order to se- 
 lect, among those who had escaped the 
 fury of the populace, such as were 
 doomed to die. How was I amazed 
 when I saw among the prisoners to be 
 tried, the very young man who was sus- 
 pefted of having given me a letter three
 
 (. 96 ; 
 
 weeks before, and when I found my 
 accuser to be the Municipal Officer 
 who had already impeached me before 
 a Council at the Temple ! I was exa- 
 mined, witnesses were produced, and 
 the Municipal Officer repeated his accu- 
 sation. I told him he was unworthy of 
 being a Magistrate of the People ; that 
 as he had heard the rumpling of the 
 paper, and thought I had received a let- 
 ter, he should immediately have had 
 me searched, instead of staying eighteen 
 hours before he lodged any information 
 whatever. The arguments being con- 
 cluded, the Jury consulted together, and 
 on their verdict we were acquitted. The 
 President charged four Municipal Offi- 
 cers, who were present at my acquittal, to 
 conduct me back to the Temple. It was 
 twelve o'clock at night, and we arrived 
 just as the King was gone to bed, to whom 
 
 I was 

 
 ( 97 ) 
 
 I was permitted to make my return 
 known. The Royal Family had been 
 very much concerned at my fate, not 
 doubting but that I had already been 
 condemned. 
 
 It was at this juncture that the Queen 
 took possession of the apartment that 
 was prepared for her in the great Tower : 
 but even this longed for day, that seem- 
 ed to promise their Majesties some com- 
 fort, was distinguished, on the part of 
 the Municipal Officers, by a fresh mark 
 of their animosity against the Queen. 
 From the hour of her being brought to 
 the Temple they had seen her de- 
 voting her life to the care of her son, 
 and in his gratitude and caresses finding 
 some alleviation to her wretchedness : 
 they took him from her, and that, with- 
 out any previous notice. Her affliction 
 
 N"
 
 ( 98 ) 
 
 was extreme. The young Prince, how- 
 ever, was placed with the King, and the 
 care of him given to me. How pathe- 
 tically did the Queen charge me to be 
 watchful over his life ! 
 
 As the events which I shall have to 
 speak of in future, occurred in a place 
 situated differently from that which I 
 have before described, I think it will be 
 proper here to give also a description of 
 their Majesties' new habitation. 
 
 THE great Tower is about a hundred 
 and fifty feet high, and consists of four 
 stories arched, and supported in the 
 middle by a great pillar from the bottom 
 to the top. The area within the walls 
 was about thirty feet square. 
 
 The second and third stories allotted 
 to the Royal Family, being, as were all
 
 ( 99 ), 
 
 the other stories, single rooms, they 
 were now each divided into four cham- 
 bers by partitions of board. The ground 
 floor was for the use of the Municipal 
 Officers; the first story was kept as a 
 guard-room ; and the King was lodged 
 in the second. 
 
 The first room of his apartments was 
 an antichamber (i), from which three 
 doors led to three separate rooms. Op- 
 posite the entrance was the King's cham- 
 ber (2), in which a bed was placed for 
 the Dauphin: mine was on the left (3); 
 so was the dining-room (4), which was 
 divided from the antichamber by a glaz- 
 ed partition. There was a chimney in 
 the King's chamber: the other rooms 
 were warmed by a great stove in the an- 
 tichamber. The light was admitted into 
 each of these rooms by windows, but 
 
 N 2
 
 those were blocked up with great iron 
 bars, and slanting screens on the outside, 
 which prevented a free circulation of 
 the air : the embrasures of the windows 
 were nine feet thick. 
 
 Every story of the great Tower com- 
 municated with four turrets, built at the 
 angles. 
 
 In one of these turrets was a staircase 
 (5) that went up as. far as the battle- 
 ments, and on which wickets were placed 
 at certain distances to the number of 
 seven. This staircase opened on every 
 floor through two gates : the first of oak, 
 very thick and studded with nails, the 
 second of iron. 
 
 Another of the turrets (6) formed a 
 closet to the King's chamber ; the third 
 served for a water-closet (7), and in the 

 
 fourth (8) was kept the fire-wood, where 
 also the temporary beds, on which the 
 Municipal Officers slept near the King, 
 were deposited in the day time. 
 
 The four rooms, of which the King's 
 apartments consisted, had a false ceiling 
 of cloth, and the partitions were hung 
 with a coloured paper. The anticham- 
 ber had the appearance of the interior of 
 a jail, and on one of the pannels was 
 hung the Declaration of the Rights of 
 Man, in very large characters with a tri- 
 coloured frame. A chest of drawers, a 
 small bureau, four chairs with cushions, 
 an armed chair, a few rush-bottomed 
 chairs, a table, a glass over the chimney, 
 and a green damask bed, were all the 
 furniture of the King's chamber : these 
 articles as well as what was in the other 
 rooms, were taken from the Temple 
 Palace, The King's bed was that in
 
 ( 102 ) 
 
 which the Count d'Artoii Captain of the 
 Guards used to sleep.* 
 
 The Queen occupied the third story, 
 which was distributed in much the same 
 manner as the King's. The bedcjipni- 
 ber for the Queen (9) and Madame 
 Royale, was above His Majesty's: in the 
 turret ( i o) was their closet. Madame 
 Elizabeth's room (11) was over mine. 
 The entrance served for an antichamber 
 (i 2), where the Municipal Officers watch- 
 ed by day and slept at night. Tison and 
 his wife were lodged over the King's 
 dining-room. (13) 
 
 * The Duke d'Angouleme, as Grand Prior of France, 
 was proprietor of the Temple Palace. The Count d" 1 Ar- 
 tols had furnished it, and made it his residence when he 
 came to Paris. The great Tower, about two hundred 
 paces from the Palace, and, standing in the middle of the 
 garden, was the depository of the archives of the Order 
 of Maltha.
 
 The fourth story was not occupied. & 
 gallery ran all along within the battle^ 
 ments which sometimes served as a walk. 
 The embrasures were stopt up with, 
 blinds, to prevent the Family from seeing 
 or being seen. 
 
 i /. 3d r ;*! rl if.\ /i /Tioit ' 
 
 Few changes were made, since their 
 Majesties being together in (fee great 
 Tower, as to the hours of their meals, 
 their reading, their walks, or -as to the 
 time they had hitherto dedicated to the 
 education of their children. Soon after 
 the King was up, he read the form of 
 prayer of the Knights of the Holy 
 Ghost, and as Mass had not been per- 
 mitted at the Temple, even on holidays, 
 he commanded me to purchase a brevia- 
 ry, such as was used in the Diocese of 
 Paris. This Monarch was of a religious 
 turn; but his religion, pure and en- 
 lightened, never encroached upon his
 
 ( 104 ) 
 
 other duties. Books of travels ; Monies- 
 quiets works; those of Buffon; dePlucht* 
 Spectacle de la Nature ; Hume's History of 
 England, in English; on the Imitation* 
 of Christ, in Latin; Tasso, in Italian ; and 
 French Plays, were what he usually read 
 from his first being sent into confine- 
 ment. He devoted four hours a day to 
 Latin authors. 
 
 The Queen and Madame Elizabeth 
 having desired books of devotion simi- 
 lar to those of the King, His Majesty 
 commanded me to purchase them. Often 
 have I seen Madame Elizabeth on her 
 knees by her bed-side praying with fer- 
 vency. 
 
 At nine o'clock, the King and his son 
 were summoned to breakfast : I attended 
 
 A well-known work of Thomas d-Kempis. 
 
 them
 
 them. I afterwards dressed the hair of 
 the Queen and Princesses, and, by the 
 Queen's orders, taught Madame Royale 
 to dress hair. While I was doing this 
 the King played at drafts or chess, some- 
 times with the Queen, sometimes with 
 Madame Elizabeth. 
 
 After dinner, the Dauphin and his 
 sister went into the antichamber to play 
 at battledore and shuttlecock, at Siam,* 
 or some other game. Madame Elizabeth 
 was always with them, and generally 
 sat at a table with a book in her hand. I 
 
 * The game of Siam is played on a board, with a 
 bowl and twelve or thirteen small wooden pins. The 
 bowl is flattened, and cut in such a manner, that by roll- 
 ing it on the edge it always makes a circle that gradually 
 diminishes, and it throws down the pins which are set up 
 jn a ring. 
 
 O
 
 ( io6 ) 
 
 staid with them too, and sometimes 
 read, at which time I sat down in obe- 
 dience to her orders. This dispersion 
 of the Royal Family often perplexed the 
 two Municipal Officers on guard, who, 
 anxious not to leave the King and Queen 
 alone, were still more so not to leave 
 one another, so great was their mutual 
 distrust. This was the time Madame 
 Elizabeth took to ask me questions or 
 give me orders. I both listened to her 
 and answered, without taking my eyes 
 from the book in my hand, that I might 
 not be surprized by the Municipal Offi- 
 cers. The Dauphin and Madame 
 Royale, instructed by their aunt, facili- 
 tated these conversations, by being noisy 
 in their play, and often made signs to 
 her that the Officers were coming. I 
 found it necessary to be particularly 
 cautious of Tison, dreaded as he was, even 
 by the Commissioners, whom he had
 
 several times impeached : the King and 
 Queen too treated him with kindness in 
 vain ; nothing could subdue his innate 
 malignity. 
 
 At night, after bed time, the Munici- 
 pal Officers ranged their beds in tfie an- 
 tichamber in such a manner as to bjtock 
 up His Majesty's door. They also lock- 
 ed one of .the doors in my room, b# 
 which I could have gone into the King's, 
 and took away the key, so that if His 
 Majesty happened to call me in the 
 night, I was forced to pass through the 
 antichamber, bear their ill humour, and 
 wait till they chose to get up. 
 
 ON the 7th of O&ober, at six o'clock 
 at night, I was summoned to the Coun- 
 cil Chamber, where I found a score of 
 
 P 2
 
 ( io8 ) 
 
 Municipal Officers, with Manuel as Pre- 
 sident, who, from being Solicitor to the 
 Commune, was become a Member of 
 the National Convention : the sight of 
 him surprized and alarmed me. I was 
 directed to remove, that very night, the 
 ORDERS still worn by the King, such as 
 those of St. Louis and the Golden Fleece : 
 His Majesty no longer wore that of the 
 Holy Ghost, which had been suppressed 
 by the first Assembly. 
 
 I represented that I could not do it, 
 and that it was not my part to make the 
 decrees of the Council known to the 
 King. I hoped by this to gain time to 
 break it to His Majesty, and I perceived 
 besides, by their embarrassment, that 
 they were then acting without the aii- 
 thority of any decree either of the Con- 
 vention or the Commune. The Com- 
 missioners were unwilling to go up ta .
 
 ( 109 ) 
 
 the King, till Manuel determined them 
 by offering to go with them. The 
 King was sitting, and engaged in read- 
 ing. Manuel spoke first, and the con- 
 versation which followed was as remark- 
 able for the indecent familiarity of the 
 Deputy, as for the temper and serenity 
 of the Monarch. 
 
 " How do you find yourself?" said 
 Manuel ; " have you every thing you 
 
 " want?" " I content myself with 
 
 " what I have," replied His Majesty. 
 
 " No doubt you have heard of the vi&o- 
 " ries gained by our armies, of the tak- 
 " ing of Spires, of Nice, and of the 
 
 " conquest of Savoy?" " I heard it 
 
 " mentioned some days ago, by one 
 " of those gentlemen, who was reading 
 " the Evening Journal." " What! 
 " don't you get the Journals, that are 
 41 become so interesting ?" " I never
 
 " receive any of them." " Oh! Sirs," 
 
 said Manuel, turning to the MunicipaJ 
 Officers, and pointing to the King, 
 " you must let the gentleman have the 
 " Journals ; it is right he should be in- 
 
 " formed of t our successes." Then, 
 
 agairi Addressing His Majesty " Demo- 
 " cratic principles are spr.eading: yovj. 
 " know that the people have abolished 
 " Royalty, and adopted ,tjhe Republican 
 " form of government." " I have 
 '.< heard it, and I pray to GOD that the 
 " French people may l?e as happy as I 
 " have always wished ,to rnake them.'-' 
 " You know too that the National 
 " Assembly has suppressed all Orders of 
 " tytyfcy.' y.U ought, to havet)een told 
 : to leave off the pmarr^ents ,o/ them : 
 " returned . to ,th cl^ss of oihqr citizens, 
 K you must ex,pet ,tp ^e treated like 
 * c others ; with this exception, as]*, for 
 4 X whatever you want, it $hajl be irnme-
 
 procured for f btt; w " I 
 thank you," said the King, " I want ho- 
 
 " thing." His Majesty here returned 
 
 to his book ; arid ManM, who had been 
 endeavouring to 'discover vexation^ or 
 provoke irnrjadertce iri him 1 , had the 
 mortification of finding only a noble 
 resignation, and an unalterable compo- 
 sure. 
 
 1?he 'deputation now withdrew, and 
 
 one of the Officers desired me to follow 
 him to the Council Chamber, where I 
 was again ordered to take the ornaments 
 from the King's person. Manuel added : 
 " You will do, well to send the crosses 
 " and ribbons to the Convention. I 
 " must also inform you," continued 
 he " that, Louis's confinement may last 
 " a long while, and that if it he not 
 " your intention to remain here, you 
 " had better take this opportunity of
 
 " declaring it. It is also in contempla- 
 " tion, in order to render the superin- 
 " tendence more easy, to decrease the 
 " number of people employed in the 
 *' Tower: if you stay with the late 
 " King, you will be left entirely by 
 " yourself, and you must expect hard 
 " work: wood and water will be brought 
 " you once a week, but it will be your 
 " business to clean the rooms, and do 
 " the rest of the work." I replied, that 
 being determined never to forsake my 
 Master, I would submit to every thing. 
 I was conducted back to His Majesty's 
 chamber, who said to me : " You heard 
 " what passed with those gentlemen, I 
 " would have you to-night take off the 
 " orders from my coats," 
 
 The next morning, when I was dress- 
 ing the King,' I told him that I had lock- 
 3 ed
 
 ( "3 ) 
 
 ed up the crosses and ribbons, although 
 Manuel had given me to understand that 
 it would be proper to send them to the 
 Convention. " You have done right," 
 replied His Majesty. 
 
 It has been reported that Manuel came 
 to the Temple, in the month of Sep- 
 tember, to prevail upon His Majesty to 
 write to the King of Prussia, at the time 
 he marched his army into Champagne. 
 I can testify that Manuel came but twice 
 to the Temple while I was there, first, 
 on the third of September, then on the 
 seventh of October; that each time he 
 was accompanied by a great number 
 of Municipal Officers, and that he ne- 
 ver had any private conversation with 
 the King. 
 
 Dn the Qth of O&ober, a Journal of the 
 p
 
 ( H4 ) 
 
 debates of the Convention was brought 
 to the King, but some days after a Mu- 
 nicipal Officer, whose name was Michel, 
 a perfumer, obtained a decree again 
 prohibiting the admission of the public 
 papers into the Tower. He sent for me 
 to the Council Chamber, and asked me 
 by what authority I had ordered the 
 Journals to be addressed to me. In rea- 
 lity, without my knowing any thing of 
 it, four Journals had every day been 
 brought, with this direction printed : 
 To the valet de chambre of Louis XV I at the 
 Tower of the Temple. I could not firid 
 out, and am still ignorant, who paid 
 the subscription for them. Michel, 
 however, wanted to "Force me to 
 who they were, and made me write t< 
 the editors of the Journals for informa- 
 tion, but their answers/if they sent an; 
 were never communicated to me.
 
 ( "5 ) 
 
 This prohibition, however, of the 
 Journals being admitted into the Tower, 
 had its exceptions when those prints fur- 
 nished opportunities of new insults. If 
 they contained abusive expressions a- 
 gainst the King or Queen, atrocious 
 threats or infamous calumnies, some Mu- 
 nicipal Officer or other was sure, with 
 studied malice, to place them on the 
 qhimney-piece, or on the chest of 
 drawers in His Majesty's chamber, that 
 
 H Jit~> . wxIiJtf OJ . 
 
 they might fall into his hands. 
 
 He once read in one of those papers, the 
 petition of an engineer for the head of the 
 tyrant Louis XVI, that he might load his 
 piece with it, and shoot it at the enemy. 
 Another Journal, speaking of Madame 
 Elizabeth, and endeavouring to destroy 
 the admiration she had excited in the 
 public, by the noble manner in which 
 she had devoted herself to the King and
 
 Queen, asserted that virtuous Princess 
 to have had a child by a Bishop, adding, 
 that this young wolf ought to be smo- 
 thered, with the two others in the 
 Tower, meaning the Dauphin and Ma- 
 dame Royale. 
 
 These articles afFefted the King only 
 for the sake of the people. " How very 
 " unfortunate are the French," said he, 
 " to suffer themselves to be imposed 
 " upon in this manner." If I saw these 
 Journals first, I took care to remove 
 them out of His Majesty's way ; but they 
 were frequently carried when I was em- 
 ployed elsewhere, so that very few of 
 the articles written for the purpose of a- 
 busing the Royal Family, whether to 
 excite the populace to regicide, or to 
 prepare the minds of the people to suffer 
 its being perpetrated, but what were 
 read by the King. They only who re-
 
 ( H7 ) 
 
 member the insolent writings that were 
 published at that time can have an idea 
 of this kind of unprecedented torture* 
 
 The influence of these sanguinary 
 writings was also observable in the con- 
 duct of such of the Municipal Officers 
 as had not before shown themselves so 
 hard-hearted or distrustful as others. 
 
 . ^''>i*i.01T*? H'. ' .' I fi '". ;' >' ; ' - iVi', 
 
 One day after dinner, having just 
 written an account of expences in the 
 Council Chamber, and locked it up in a 
 desk of which they had given me the 
 key; my back was scarcely turned, 
 when Marinot, a Municipal Officer, said 
 to his colleagues, though he was not on 
 duty, that they ought to open the desk, 
 and examine its contents, to ascertain 
 whether or not I had a correspondence 
 with the enemies of the people. " I 
 " know him well," added he, " and am
 
 sure he receives letters for the King." 
 Then accusing his colleages of remiss- 
 ness, abused them violently, threatened 
 to impeach them all before the Council 
 of the Commune as accomplices, and 
 went out to put his threat into execution 
 A minute was immediately drawn up 
 of all the papers in the desk, and sent to 
 the ^Commune, where Marmot had al- 
 ready laid his information. 
 
 Another.day, on seeing a draft-board, 
 .(damier*), which, with the .permission of 
 '.his colleagues, I had sent to be mended, 
 tbrought ;back, he pretended it might 
 contain a correspondence, had it entire- 
 ly taken to. pieces, and, when .he found 
 nothing, made the workmen paste it 
 together again before him. 
 
 * It yvas a single sheet of pastcboarf. 
 
 . G *' . t yri b '\li3w. ttiid wotuf
 
 ( "9 ) 
 
 Once my wife and her friend coming 
 to the Tower as usual on the Thursday, 
 I was speaking with them in the -Council 
 Chamber, when the Queen and Ma- 
 dame Elizabeth, who were walking, saw 
 TO, 'arid 'nodded to us. Tftiis ^notice of 
 Tnere affability Was 'observed by 'Marinotj 
 -and l it 'was <grtfurul enough for himito 
 'have my wife and her 'friend arrested as 
 they 'toere going o4t ;<jf the ^Council 
 'Chamber. They 'were 'examined sepa- 
 rately : my wife being asked who the 
 lady was that accompanied her, declared 
 she was her sister ; Avhile to the same 
 question the other had replied that they 
 were -cousins. This contradiction fur- 
 nished subject for a long written state- 
 ment,* and the most serious suspicions : 
 Marmot pretending ' that* this ' tedy v was 
 one of the Queen's Pages in disguise. 
 
 * Proces-verbal.
 
 ( 1*0 ) 
 
 However, after a most painful and in- 
 sulting examination, that lasted three 
 hours, they were set at liberty. 
 
 They were still permitted to come to 
 the Tower : but we redoubled our cau- 
 tion. I had often in those short inter- 
 views managed to slip into their hands 
 notes written with a pencil, which had 
 escaped the searches of the Municipal 
 Officers, and which I concealed with 
 great care. These notes related to some 
 information their Majesties wished to 
 have : luckily on that day they had not 
 received any ; if one had been found 
 upon them, we should all three have 
 been in the greatest danger, 
 
 There were others of the Municipal 
 Officers who had the most extravagant 
 whims. One ordered some macaroons 
 
 to
 
 to be broken to see if there was no letter 
 concealed in them. Another, on the 
 same pretence, had some peaches cut 
 before him, and the stones cracked. 
 A third, one clay, compelled me to 
 drink the essence of soap* prepared for 
 shaving the King, affecting to appre- 
 hend it was poison. After dinner and 
 supper, Madame Elizabeth used to give 
 me a gold-bladed knife to clean, which 
 the Municipal Officer would often snatch 
 out of my hand, to examine if I had 
 not sHpt some paper into the sheath. 
 
 Madame Elizabeth having command- 
 ed me to send a book of devotion to the 
 Dutchess de Serent, the Municipal Offi- 
 cers cut off the margins, for fear any 
 
 
 
 * It was common for gentlemen to use soap prepared 
 in a liquid form.
 
 ( 122 ) 
 
 thing should have been written upon 
 them with a secret ink. 
 
 One of them one day forbade my 
 going up to the Queen to dress her hair: 
 Her Majesty was to come down to the 
 King's apartments, and to bring her 
 powder and combs herself. 
 
 Another would follow her into Ma- 
 dame Elizabeth's chamber to see her 
 change her cloaths, which she usually 
 did' at noon : I represented to him the 
 indecency of such behaviour, but he 
 persisted, and Her Majesty was obliged 
 to give up dressing, and leave the room. 
 
 When the linen was brought from the 
 wash, the Officers made me unfokl arti- 
 cle by article, and examined it always 
 by day-light. The washerwoman's 
 book, and every paper used for packing,
 
 ( 1*3 
 
 were held to the fire, to ascertain whe- 
 ther there were not any secret writing 
 upon them. The linen, after having 
 been worn by the King, Queen, Prince, 
 and Princesses, was in like manner exa- 
 mined before it was given out. 
 
 There were, however, some of the 
 Municipal Officers who were not so har- 
 dened as their colleagues: but most of 
 these becoming suspected by the Com- 
 mittee of Public Safety have fallen vic- 
 tims to their humanity, and those who 
 are still alive have been long groaning 
 in confinement. 
 
 -A young man called Taulan, whom by 
 his manner of speaking, I thought to 
 be one of the greatest enemies of the 
 Royal Family, came up to me one day, 
 and pressing my hand, said with an air
 
 of mystery: " I can't speak to the 
 " Queen to-day, on account of my com- 
 " rades ; let her know that I have exe- 
 " cuted her commission, that in a few 
 " days I shall be on duty, and that I 
 
 " will then bring her an answer." 
 
 Amazed on hearing him speak thus, 
 and fearing that he was laying a snare 
 for me, I answered, that he was mista- 
 ken in addressing himself to me on such 
 errands. " No, I am not mistaken," 
 replied he, pressing my hand with still 
 more warmth, and retiring. On my 
 informing the Queen of this conversa- 
 tion, she told me I might trust Toulan. 
 This young man was afterwards involved 
 on Her Majesty's trial, with nine other 
 Municipal Officers, accused of having 
 agreed to favour her escape at the time 
 she was at the Temple. Toulan was put 
 to death.
 
 (. 
 
 THEIR Majesties, for three months 
 that they had now been shut up in the 
 Tower had heen accustomed to the sight 
 only of Municipal Officers, when on 
 the ist of November, a deputation from 
 the National Convention was announced 
 to them. This deputation consisted of 
 Drouet, the Post-Master at Varennes, 
 Chabot, formerly a Capuchin, Dubois- 
 Crance, Duprat and two others whose 
 names I do not recollect. The Royal 
 Family, and particularly the Queen, 
 shuddered with horror at the sight of 
 Drouet, who insolently seated himself 
 by her : Chabot, following his example, 
 also took a chair. They asked the King 
 how he was treated, and if he was sup- 
 plied with necessaries. " I complain of 
 " nothing," replied His Majesty, " and 
 " only request that the Committee will 
 " supply my valet de chambre with 
 * 2000 livres, or leave it with the Coun-
 
 ( 126 ) 
 
 " cil, to defray the small current ex- 
 " pences, and that we may have some 
 " linen and other cloaths, of which we 
 " are in the greatest need." The Depu- 
 ties promised it should be attended to, 
 but nothing was sent. 
 
 Some days after y the King caught a 
 great cold in his head, on which I re- 
 quested that M. Dubois, His Majesty's 
 Pentist, might be sent for. It was de- 
 bated for three days, and at last refused, 
 A fever coming on, His Majesty was 
 permitted to consult M. le Monnier, his 
 chief Physician. It would be difficult 
 to paint the .grief of this venerable old 
 man when he saw his Master. 
 
 The Queen and her children never left 
 the King during the day, waited upon 
 him with me, and often assisted me to 
 make his bed. At night, I sat up alone
 
 ( 127 ) 
 
 with His Majesty. M. le Mourner came 
 twice a day, accompanied by a great 
 number of Municipal Officers : he was 
 searched, and not permitted to speak 
 but in a loud voice. Once when the 
 King had taken medicine, M. le Monnier 
 begged to stay some hours with him : as 
 he continued standing, while the Muni- 
 cipal Officers were sitting with their hats 
 on, His Majesty asked him to take a 
 chair, which he refused through res- 
 pect, at which the Commissioners loudly 
 murmured. The King continued ill 
 ten days. 
 
 Soon after, the young Prince, who 
 slept in His Majesty's chamber, and 1 
 whom the Officers would not consent to 
 have removed to the Queen's, caught a 
 cold which was attended with, fever. 
 The Queen was the more anxious about
 
 ( 128 ) 
 
 it, as she could not obtain permission, 
 although she used the most fervent en- 
 treaties, to be all night with her son. 
 During the time she was allowed to be 
 with him she attended him with the 
 most affectionate care. The Queen af- 
 terwards caught the same disorder, and 
 so did Madame Royale and Madame Eli- 
 zabeth. M. le Monnier was suffered to 
 continue his visits. 
 
 I fell ill in my turn. My room was 
 damp, and without a fire-place, and the 
 little air I breathed in it was confined by 
 the slanting skreen at the window. I 
 was attacked with a rheumatic fever 
 and great pain in the side that forced me 
 to keep my bed. I got up the first 
 morning to wait upon the King, but 
 His Majesty, seeing the state I was in, 
 would not suffer it, but ordered me to
 
 go to bed, and dressed the Dauphin 
 himself. 
 
 During the first day the Dauphin 
 scarcely ever left me ; he brought me 
 all that I drank. At night, the King 
 took an opportunity, when he was least 
 observed, to come into my room: he 
 made me take a glass of cooling liquor, 
 and said to me, with a kindness that 
 brought tears into my eyes : " I wish I 
 " could attend you myself, but you 
 " know how we are watched : keep up 
 " your spirits; to-morrow you will see 
 " my Physician." At supper time, the 
 Royal Family came into my room, and 
 Madame Elizabeth, unperceived by the 
 Municipal Officers, gave me a small bot- 
 tle of linctus. Though she had a vio- 
 lent cold, she deprived herself of the 
 medicine to give it to me : I wished to 
 R
 
 have declined it, but she insisted upon my 
 taking it. After supper, the Queen un- 
 dressed the Prince and put him to bed, and 
 Madame Elizabeth rolled the King's hair. 
 
 The next morning, M. le Monnier c - 
 dered me to be blooded, but the consent 
 of the Commune was necessary for the 
 admission of a Surgeon. They talked 
 of removing me to the Palace in the 
 Temple : but fearing I should never be 
 permitted to return to the Tower, if 
 once I went out of it, I excused myself 
 from the bleeding, and even pretended 
 to be better. At night, we had new Mu- 
 nicipal Officers, and nothing more was 
 said about removing me. 
 
 Turgi asked if he might sit up with 
 me at night, which he and his two com- 
 rades were allowed to do, and they took 
 it in turn. I was six days confined to my
 
 
 bed, and the Royal Family came to see 
 me every day. Madame Elizabeth often 
 brought me medecines which she order- 
 ed as for herself. So many kind atten- 
 tions greatly recruited my strength ; and 
 instead of feeling pain I had very soon 
 only to feel gratitude and admiration. 
 Who but would have been affected at 
 seeing this august Family in a manner 
 suspending the remembrance of their 
 own protracted miseries, to attend the 
 sick bed of one of their servants ! 
 
 Here I must not forget to relate an 
 a&ion of the Dauphin's, which proves 
 how great was the goodness of his heart, 
 and how he profited by the example of 
 virtue which he had continually before 
 his eyes. 
 
 One evening after putting him to bed,
 
 ( 13* ) 
 
 I withdrew to give place for the Queen 
 and Princesses, who went to kiss him, 
 and wish him good night in his bed. 
 Madame Elizabeth who had been pre- 
 vented from speaking to me by the 
 watchfulness of the Municipal Officers, 
 took that time to put into his hand a lit- 
 tle box of ipecacuana lozenges, desiring 
 him to give it to me when I came back. 
 The Queen and Princesses went up to 
 their apartments, the King retired to 
 his closet, and I took my supper. It 
 was eleven o'clock before I went back to 
 the King's chamber to turn down His 
 Majesty's bed: I was alone, and the 
 Prince called me in a low voice : I was 
 much surprized to find him awake, and 
 fearing he was ill, asked what was the 
 matter. Nothing," said he, " only 
 " my aunt left me a little box for you, 
 
 * and I would not go to sleep before I 
 
 * gave it you ; I am glad you are come, 

 
 < 133 ) 
 
 " for my eyes have been already shut 
 " several times." The tears came into 
 mine, he perceived it, and kissed me, 
 and in two minutes was fast asleep. 
 
 To this sensibility the Prince added a 
 great many attractions, and all the ami- 
 able qualities of his age. He would often 
 by his arch simplicity,* the liveliness 
 of his disposition, and his little frolics, 
 make his august parents forget their 
 mournful situation ; yet he felt it him- 
 self : he knew, young as he was, that he 
 was in a prison, and that he was watched 
 by enemies. His words and actions had 
 assumed that circumspection which in- 
 stinct prompts perhaps at every age un- 
 der circumstances of danger. I never 
 heard him speak either of the Thuille- 
 ries, or of Versailles, or of any object
 
 ( 134 ) 
 
 that could recall to the King or Queen a 
 painful recollection. If he saw a Muni- 
 cipal Officer more civil than his collea- 
 gues coming, away he ran to the Queen 
 in haste to tell her of it, saying, with 
 his countenance full of satisfaction : 
 " Mamma, it is Mr. Such-a-one to-day." 
 
 One day, he kept his eyes fixed upon 
 a Municipal Officer, whom he said he 
 recollected: the man asked him where 
 he had seen him, but the Prince refused 
 to answer; then leaning over to the 
 Queen, " It was," said he to her in a low 
 voice, " in our journey to Varennes." 
 
 The following anecdote affords another 
 proof of his sensibility. There was a 
 stone-cutter employed in making holes 
 at the antichamber door to admit enor- 
 mous bolts ; the Prince, while the man 
 was eating his breakfast, played with
 
 - ( 1354 
 
 his tools : the King took the mallet and 
 chisel out of his son's hands, and show^ 
 ed him how to handle them. He used 
 them for some minutes. The workman, 
 moved at seeing the King so employed, 
 said to His Majesty: " When you go 
 " out of this Tower you will be able 
 " to say that you had worked yourself 
 " at your own prison." " Ah!" re- 
 plied the King, " when and how shall I 
 
 " go out ?" The Dauphin burst into 
 
 tears, and the King, letting fall the mal- 
 let and chisel, returned to his room, 
 where he walked about hastily and in 
 great agitation. 
 
 ON the second of December, the Mu- 
 nicipality of the loth of August was su- 
 perceded by another, with the title of 
 Pro visionary Municipality. Many of 
 the former Municipal Officers were re-
 
 ( 136 ) 
 
 elected. I at first supposed that this 
 new body might be of a better compo- 
 sition than the former, and I hoped 
 some favourable changes in the regula- 
 tion of the prison ; but I was disappoint- 
 ed. Several of the new Officers gave 
 me reason to regret their predecessors : 
 they were still coarser in their manners, 
 but I found it easy, from their way of 
 talking, to make myself acquainted with 
 whatever they knew. I had to study the 
 Members of this new Municipality in 
 order to judge of their conduct and dispo- 
 sition : the former ones were more inso- 
 lent ; the malice of the latter was more 
 systematic and refined. 
 
 TiU this period, the King had been 
 attended only by one Municipal Officer, 
 and the Queen by another. The new 
 Municipality ordered that there should 
 
 be
 
 ( 137 ) 
 
 be two to each, and thence forward, I 
 found it more difficult to speak with the 
 King and the Royal Family. On the 
 other hand, the Council which had hi- 
 therto been held in one of the halls in 
 the Palace of the Temple, was removed 
 to a chamber on the ground floor of the 
 Tower. The new Municipal Officers 
 Were desirous of surpassing the former 
 in zeal, and this zeal was an emulation 
 of tyranny. 
 
 On the yth of December, an Officer 
 at the head of a deputation of the Com- 
 mune came to the King, and read a de- 
 cree, ordering that the persons in con- 
 finement should be deprived of " knives, 
 " razors, scissars, and all other sharp 
 " instruments, which are usually taken 
 " from criminals, and that the strictest 
 " search should be made for the same, 
 s
 
 as well on their persons as in their 
 " apartments." In reading this his 
 voice faultered : it was easy to per- 
 ceive the violence he did to his feelings, 
 and he has since shown by his conduct, 
 that he had consented to come to the 
 Temple, only in the hope of being use- 
 ful to the Royal Family. 
 
 The King took out of his pockets 
 a knife and a small Morocco pocket- 
 book, from which he gave the penknife 
 and scissars. The Officers searched 
 every corner of the apartment, and 
 carried off the razors, the curling irons, 
 the powder-scraper, instruments for the 
 teeth, and other articles of gold and sil- 
 ver. The same search was made in my 
 room, and I was ordered to empty my 
 pockets. 
 
 Tlxey then went up to the Queen, read
 
 the decree over again to her and the 
 Princesses, and deprived them even of 
 the little articles they used in working. 
 
 In an hour afterwards, I was sum- 
 moned to the Council Chamber, where 
 I was asked if I did not know what were 
 the articles that remained in the pocket- 
 book, which the King had returned into 
 his pocket. " I order you," said a Mu- 
 nicipal Officer named Sermaize, " to take 
 " the pocket-book away this night." I re- 
 plied, that it was not my business to put 
 the decrees of the Commune into exe- 
 cution, nor to search the King's pockets. 
 "" Clery is in the right," said another 
 Municipal Officer, addressing himself to 
 Sermaize, " it was your business to have 
 " made the search." 
 
 A minute was made of all the articles 
 
 S 2
 
 taken from the Royal Family; which 
 which were put up in separate packets 
 and sealed. I was then commanded to 
 sign my name to an order, by which I 
 was enjoined to give notice to the Coun- 
 cil if I found any sharp instruments in 
 possession of the King or Royal Family, 
 or in any of their apartments. These 
 different articles were all sent to the 
 Commune. 
 
 By examining the registers of the 
 Council of the Temple, it may be seen 
 that I had often been compelled to sign 
 decrees and demands of which I was 
 very far from approving either the form 
 or substance. I never did sign any thing, 
 say any thing, or do any thing but as 
 specially directed by the King or Queen. 
 A refusal on my part might have sepa- 
 rated me from their Majesties, to whom 
 I had devoted my existence ; and my
 
 signature at the bottom of certain de- 
 crees only went to show that they had 
 been read to me, 
 
 Sermaize^ the same person of whom I 
 have been speaking, went with me to 
 His Majesty's apartment. The King 
 was sitting at the fire, with the tongs in 
 his hand. Sermaize desired by authority 
 of the Council to see what was left in the 
 pocket-book : the King took it out of his 
 pocket and opened it. It contained a turn- 
 screw, a gun-worm and a little gun- 
 steel. Sermaize made him give them up. 
 The King turning on his heel, asked 
 if the tongs he held in his hand were not 
 also a sharp instrument? When the 
 Municipal Officer was gone down I had 
 an opportunity of informing His Ma- 
 jesty of all that had passed at the Coun- 
 il relative to this second search.
 
 ( 142 ) 
 
 At dinner time, a dispute arose 
 amongst the Commissioners. Some were 
 against the Royal Family's using knives 
 and forks, others were for letting them 
 have the forks, and it was at last decided 
 that no change should be made, but 
 that the knives and forks should be 
 taken away after every meal. 
 
 The Queen and the Princesses were 
 the more sensible of the loss of the little 
 articles that had been taken from them, 
 as they were in consequence forced to 
 give up different works, which till then 
 had served to divert their attention dur- 
 ing the tedious days of a prison. Once 
 as Madame Elizabeth was mending the 
 King's coat, having no gcissars, she bit 
 off the thread with her teeth. " What 
 " a reverse!" said the King, looking ten- 
 derly on her, " you were in want of no- 
 " thing at your pretty house of Mon- 
 " treuil." Ah! brother," replied
 
 she, " can I feel a regret of any kind, 
 " when I share your misfortunes?" 
 
 Meanwhile, every day brought new 
 decrees, every one of which was a fresh 
 tyranny. The rude harshness of the Mu- 
 nicipal Officers towards me was more 
 remarkable than ever. The three atten- 
 dants were again forbidden to speak to 
 me, and every thing seemed to forebode 
 some new misfortune. The Queen and 
 Madame Elizabeth felt the same presen- 
 timent, and were continually applying 
 to me for news, which it was not in my 
 power to give. I did not expect to see 
 my wife in less than three days; my im- 
 patience was extreme. 
 
 At length, on Thursday, my wife 
 came : I was called to the Council Cham- 
 ber. She affected to speak loud to avoid 
 the suspicions of our new inspectors,
 
 C 144 ) 
 
 and while she was giving me an account 
 of our domestic affairs, her friend in a 
 lower voice, told me that on the suc- 
 ceeding Tuesday, the King was to be 
 carried to the Convention, that he was 
 to be put upon his trial, that he was to be 
 allowed counsel, and that all this was cer- 
 tain. 
 
 I was at a loss how to open this horri- 
 ble news to the King, and wished first 
 to inform the Queen or Madame Eliza- 
 beth of it ; but I was under the greatest 
 apprehensions : there was no time to be 
 lost, and the King had expressly forbid- 
 den me to conceal any thing from him. 
 At night, when I was undressing him, i 
 told him what I had heard, and went so 
 far as to hint that there was an intention 
 of separating him from his Family 
 during the trial, adding that there were 
 
 but
 
 ( 145 ) 
 
 but four days more to concert with the 
 Queen some mode of corresponding 
 with her. I also assured him that there 
 was nothing I was not resolved to under- 
 take to assist in it. Here the appearance 
 of the Municipal Officers did not permit 
 me to say more upon the subject, and 
 prevented His Majesty from making any 
 answer. 
 
 The next morning, I could not find 
 an opportunity of speaking to the King 
 when he was getting up t he w r ent with 
 the Dauphin to breakfast in the Queen's 
 apartment, where I attended him. Af- 
 ter breakfast he continued some time 
 conversing with the Queen, who, by a 
 look, full of grief, made me understand 
 that the intelligence I had, given the 
 King was the subject of their conversation. 
 In the course of the day, rinding an op- 
 x
 
 ( 146 ) 
 
 portunity of speaking to Madame Eliza- 
 beth, I mentioned to her how much pain 
 it had cost me to increase the sufferings 
 of the King, by informing him of the 
 clay on which he was to be brought to 
 trial. It was much comfort to me to 
 hear her say, that the King felt that 
 mark of my attachment. " What af- 
 " flidts him most," added she, " is the 
 " dread of being separated from us : en- 
 " deavour to gain some further Intel- 
 " ligence." 
 
 At night, the King assured me that he 
 was very glad to have been apprized 
 that he was to appear before the^ Con- 
 vention. " Continue," said he, " to 
 " endeavour to find out what they are 
 " going to do with me, and don't be 
 " afraid of giving me pain. I have 
 " agreed with my Family not to appear
 
 V" : ... ( I47 } 
 
 *' informed of what is passing, that you 
 " may not be suspedted." 
 
 The nearer the day of the trial ap- 
 proached, the more was I distrusted : 
 the Municipal Officers would not answer 
 any of my questions. I had in vain 
 been forming different pretences to go 
 down to the Council, where I might 
 have collected fresh particulars to com- 
 municate to the King, when a com- 
 mission arrived at the Temple, charged 
 to audit the accounts of the Royal Fa- 
 mily. They were under the necessity 
 of having me present to speak to the ar<- 
 ticles of expences, and I learnt through 
 a Municipal Officer, whose dispositions 
 were friendly, that the decree for sepa- 
 rating the King from "his Family had 
 been passed only in the Commune, and 
 not yet in the National Assembly. On 
 T 2,
 
 < .148 ) 
 
 the same day, Turgi brought me a news~ 
 paper containing the decree which or- 
 dained that the King should be brought 
 to the bar of the Convention : he also 
 gave me a Memorial, published by M. 
 Necker, on the King's trial. The only 
 means I had of communicating this 
 newspaper and Memorial to the Royal 
 Family was by hiding them under a 
 piece of furniture in the King's water- 
 closet. Having informed the Family of 
 the circumstance, they had it in their 
 power successively to read them. This 
 closet was the only place into which the 
 Municipal Officers did not follow them.. 
 
 On the eleventh of December 1792, 
 by five o'clock in the morning, the drum 
 was heard beating to arms throughout 
 Paris, and a troop of horse with cannon 
 were marched into the garden of the 
 Temple. This noise would have given
 
 a dreadful alarm to the Royal Family, had 
 they not been apprized of the causey 
 they feigned, however, to be ignorant 
 of it, and asked an explanation of the 
 Commissioners on duty, who refused to 
 make any reply. 
 
 At nine o'clock, the King and the 
 Dauphin went up to breakfast with the 
 Queen and Princesses: their Majesties 
 remained together an hour, but always 
 in $igh,t of the Municipal Officers. This 
 constant torment which the Royal Fa^- 
 mily suffered in not being able to give a 
 loose to any unrestrained expression of 
 their feelings, to any free effusion cf 
 their hearts, at a moment when they 
 could not but be agitated with so many 
 fears, was one of the most cruel refine- 
 ments, and dearest delights of their ty- 
 rants. They were at last obliged to part. 
 The King left the Queen, Madame Eli-
 
 ( 150 ) 
 
 zabeth, and his daughter, and what 
 they dared not speak their looks ex- 
 pressed: the Dauphin came down as 
 visual with the King. 
 
 The Prince, who often prevailed on 
 His Majesty to play a game of Siam 
 with him, was so pressing that day that 
 the King, in spite of his situation, 
 could not refuse him. The Dauphin 
 lost every game, and twice he could get 
 no farther than sixteen. " Whenever," 
 cried he, in a little pet, " I get to the 
 " point of sixteen, I am sure never to 
 " win the game." The King said no- 
 thing, but he seemed to feel the coinci- 
 dence of the words. 
 
 At eleven o'clock, when the King 
 was hearing the Dauphin read, two Mu- 
 nicipal Officers walked in and told His 
 Majesty that they were come to carry
 
 ( is* ) 
 
 the young Louis, to his mother. The 
 King desired to know why he was taken 
 away : the Commissioners replied, that 
 they were executing the orders of the- 
 Council of the Commune. The King 
 tenderly embraced his son, and charged 
 me to conduft him. On my return I 
 assured His Majesty that I had delivered 
 the Prince to the Queen, which appear- 
 ed to relieve his mind. One of the Mu- 
 nicipal Officers came back and informed 
 him that Chambon, Mayor of Paris, was 
 with the Council, and that he was just 
 coming up. " What does he want with 
 " me ?" said the King. The Officer an- 
 swered, that he did not know. 
 
 His Majesty for some minutes walked 
 about his room in much agitation, then 
 sat down in an armed chair at the head 
 of the bed : the door stood a jar, but 
 the Officer did not like to go in, wish-
 
 ing, as he told me, to avoid questions : 
 but half an hour passing thus in dead 
 silence, he became uneasy at not hearing 
 the King move, and went softly in ; he 
 found him leaning with his head upon 
 his hand, apparently in deep thought; 
 The King, on being disturbed, said, 
 raising his voice : " What do you want 
 " with me?" " I was afraid," an- 
 swered the Officer, " that you were ill.'* 
 
 " I am obliged to you," replied the 
 
 King, in an accent replete with anguish, 
 " but the manner in which they have 
 " taken my son from me cuts me to the 
 " heart*" The Municipal Officer with- 
 drew without saying a word. 
 
 The Mayor did not make his appear- 
 ance till one o'clock. He was accompa- 
 nied by Ckawnette, Solicitor to the Com- 
 mune, Coulombeau, Secretary of the 
 1 Rolls,
 
 ( .153 ) 
 
 Rolls, several Municipal Officers, .and 
 Santerre, Commander in Chief of the 
 National Guards, attended by his aid- 
 de-camps. The Mayor told the King 
 that he came to conduct him to the 
 Convention, by virtue of a decree, 
 which the Secretary to the Commune 
 would read to him. The import of the 
 decree was, " that Louis Capet should be 
 " brought to the bar of the National 
 
 " Convention." " Capet? said the 
 
 King, " is not my name : it is that of 
 " one of my Ancestors." He added, " I 
 " could have wished, Sir, that the Com- 
 " missioners had left my son with me 
 " during the two hours I have passed 
 " waiting for you : but this treatment is 
 " of a piece with the rest I have met 
 " with here for these four months. I 
 " am ready to follow you, not in obe- 
 " dience to the Convention, but because 
 u
 
 ( 154 ) 
 
 46 my enemies have the power in their 
 " hands." I gave His Majesty his great 
 coat and hat, and he followed the Mayor. 
 A strong body of guards was waiting 
 for him at the gate of the Temple. 
 
 Remaining alone in the chamber with 
 a Municipal Officer, I learnt from him 
 that the King was not to see his Family 
 again, but that the Mayor had still to 
 consult with some Deputies respecting 
 this separation. I begged to be conduct- 
 ed to the Dauphin, who was with the 
 Queen, and this was granted me. I 
 staid with him till about six in the even- 
 ing, when the King returned from the 
 Convention. The Municipal Officers 
 informed the Queen of the King's de- 
 parture but without entering into any 
 particulars. The Family came down 
 as usual to dine in His Majesty's apart- 
 ment, and then went up again.
 
 ( '55 ) 
 
 After dinner, there was but one Mu- 
 nicipal Officer remained with the Queen. 
 He was a young man about four-and- 
 twenty years old, of the Section of the 
 Temple: it was the first time he had 
 ever been upon guard at the Tower; 
 and he appeared less suspicious, and 
 less uncivil than the generality of his 
 colleagues. The Queen entered into 
 conversation with him, and asked him 
 questions about his situation, his family 
 and the like ; while Madame Elizabeth 
 took the opportunity of beckoning me 
 to follow her to another room. 
 
 Here I informed her that, the Com- 
 mune had decreed to separate the King 
 from his Family, and that I was afraid 
 the separation would take place that 
 very night : for though it was true^that 
 nothing respecting it had been done in 
 
 y 9
 
 the Convention, yet the 'Mayor was 
 
 charged to make the application, and 
 
 would no doubt succeed. u The Queen 
 
 " and myself," replied she, " look for 
 
 " the worst, and do not deceive our- 
 
 " selves as to the fate preparing for the 
 
 " King: he will die a sacrifice to the 
 
 " goodness of his heart, and love for 
 
 " his people, for whose happiness he 
 
 " has never ceased to labour since he 
 
 " mounted the Throne. How cruelly 
 
 " is this people deceived ! As for him, 
 
 " his Religion, and that perfect reliance 
 
 " he has upon Providence, will support 
 
 " him in this sad moment of adversity, 
 
 " You, Clery? continued triis virtuous 
 
 Princess, with tears in her eyes, " will 
 
 " now be the only person with my bro- 
 
 " ther : redouble, if possible, your at- 
 
 " tentions to him, and omit no oppor- 
 
 ;t tunity of giving us intelligence res-^ 
 
 " peeling him ; but on no other account
 
 ( 157 ) 
 
 " expose yourself, for then we should 
 " have nobody on whom we could rely." 
 I repeated to her my assurances of devo- 
 tion to the King, and we agreed upon 
 means by which we could keep up a 
 correspondence, 
 
 Turgi was the only person I could en- 
 trust with the secret, and to him I could 
 speak but seldom and cautiously. It was 
 agreed that I should continue to keep 
 the Dauphin's linen and cloaths; that 
 every other day I should send him a 
 change, and take the opportunity to 
 give intelligence of what was passing 
 about the Kmg, This plan suggested 
 to Madame Elizabeth the idea of my 
 receiving one of her handkerchiefs, 
 " which," said she, " you will keep 
 " when my brother is well, but if he 
 " should be ill, you will send it among 
 " my nephew's linen." The manner
 
 ( 158 ) 
 of folding it was to show the nature of 
 
 the disorder. 
 
 The anguish of the Princess, while 
 speaking of her brother, her indifference 
 as to herself, the value which she was 
 pleased to attach to my poor endeavours 
 in the service of His Majesty, all deeply 
 affected me. " Have you heard any 
 " thing respecting the Queen r" said she, 
 with a sort of terror : " Alas ! of what 
 
 " can they accuse -her ?" " Nay, Ma- 
 
 " dame," I replied, " of what can they 
 
 " accuse the King?" " Oh! nothing; 
 
 " no, nothing;" she answered, " but, per- 
 " haps, they may look upon the King 
 " as a victim necessary to their safety ; 
 " but surely the Queen and her children 
 " would be no obstacles to their ambi- 
 " tion !" - I took the liberty of ob- 
 serving that, no doubt, the King could 
 only be sentenced to banishment, that I
 
 ( 159 ) 
 
 had heard it spoken of, and that as Spain 
 had not declared war, it was likely that 
 he would be sent with his Family into 
 that kingdom. " I have no hope," said 
 she, " that the King will be saved." 
 
 I thought it proper to add that the fo- 
 reign powers were busy in forming plans 
 to extricate the King from his impri- 
 sonment; that MONSIEUR, and the 
 Count d^Artois^ were again assembling 
 all the emigrants, to join the Austrian 
 and Prussian armies; that Spain and 
 England would take steps, and that all 
 Europe was interested to prevent the 
 death of the King, that the Convention 
 would therefore have to refledt seriously 
 before they pronounced upon His Ma- 
 jesty's fate. 
 
 This conversation lasted near an hour, 
 when Madame Elizabeth, with whom
 
 I had never spoken for so long a time, 
 fearing the arrival of the new Munici- 
 pal Officers, left me, in order to return 
 to the Queen's chamber. Tison and his 
 wife, who were perpetually watching 
 me, observed that I had been a great 
 while with Madame Elizabeth, and that 
 it was to be feared the Commissioner had 
 perceived it. I told them that the Prin- 
 cess had been speaking to me about her 
 nephew, who would probably in future 
 remain with his mother. 
 
 I returned in a few minutes to Her 
 Majesty's chamber, to whom Madame 
 Elizabeth had been communicating her 
 conversation with me, and the means 
 we had concerted for effecting a corres- 
 pondence ; Her Majesty had the good- 
 ness to express her satisfaction. 
 
 At
 
 , . 
 
 At six o'clock, the Commissioners 
 took me down to the Council; where 
 they read to me a decree of the Com- 
 mune, ordering that I should no longer 
 have any communication with the 
 Queen, the Princesses or the young 
 Prince, because I was appointed to wait 
 upon the King alone : it was even de- 
 creed at first, with a view of putting 
 the King into some sort of close confine- 
 ment, that I should not sleep in his a- 
 partments, but be lodged in the little 
 Tower, and only conducted to His Ma- 
 jesty when he wanted me. 
 
 At half after six o'clock, the King re- 
 turned : he appeared fatigued, and the 
 first thing he did was to desire to be 
 shown to his Family. This was objected 
 to, under the pretence of having no or- 
 ders : he insisted that they should at 
 x
 
 least be informed of his return, which 
 was promised him. The King then or- 
 dered me to speak for his supper at half 
 past eight ; he employed the interval of 
 two hours, in reading as usual, but all 
 the while surrounded by four Municipal 
 
 ?>*<! * 
 
 Officers, 
 
 At half past eight,, I informed His 
 Majesty that supper was served. He 
 asked the Commissioners if his Family 
 were not coming down : they made him 
 no answer, " But at least," said the 
 King, ^ my son is to sleep in my ap : 
 " partment, as his bed and things 
 " are here," Still no reply. After sup- 
 per, the King renewed his instances 
 to see his Family: and was told that 
 he must wait the determination of the 
 Convention, I then delivered up the 
 Dauphin's night things.
 
 )* ,- 
 
 When I was undressing the King for 
 bed he said, that he could never have Con- 
 ceived all the questions they had put td 
 him ; and then lay down with great 
 tranquillity* The decree of the Com- 
 mune, relative to lodging me at a dis- 
 tance, was not put into execution: it 
 would have been too troublesome for 
 the Municipal Officers to have come for 
 me every time the King wanted my at- 
 tendance. 
 
 On the morning of the I2th, the mo- 
 ment the King saw a Municipal Officer, 
 he asked if there had been any determi- 
 nation respecting the request he had 
 made to see his Family ; and was again 
 answered that they waited for orders. 
 He then begged that Officer to go and 
 enquire how the Queen, the Princesses, 
 and the Dauphin were, and tell them
 
 ( 164 ) 
 
 that he was well. The Commissioner 
 returned with an account of their being 
 in good health. The King then gave 
 me orders to send his son's bed up to the 
 Queen's apartments, where the young 
 Prince had slept on one of her mattrasses. 
 I begged His Majesty to wait the deter- 
 mination of the Convention ; to which 
 he replied: " I expect no consideration, 
 " no justice, but let us wait." 
 
 The same day, a deputation from the 
 Convention, composed of four Depu- 
 ties: Thuriot) Cambaceres y Dubois-Cra?ice 
 and Dupont de Bigorre, brought the de- 
 cree authorizing the King to employ 
 Counsel. He said, he chose M. Tar get , 
 or if he declined it, M. Tronchct, but 
 both of them, if the National Conven- 
 tion would agree to it. The Deputies 
 made the King sign this demand, and 
 countersigned it themselves. His -Majes-
 
 ty added, that he should want paper, 
 pen and ink. He gave M. Tronchefs ad- 
 dress, at his country house, but said he 
 did not know where M. Target lived. 
 
 On the 1 3th, in the morning, the same 
 deputation returned to the Temple, and 
 informed the King, that M. Target had 
 declined taking his defence upon him, 
 and that M. Tronchet had been sent for, 
 and was expe&ed in the coiirse of the 
 day. They then read to him several letters 
 which were addressed to the Convention 
 by M. Sourdat, M. Huct, M. Guillaume, 
 and M. de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, who 
 had been formerly first President of the 
 Court of Aids in Paris, and afterwards 
 Minister of the King's Household. M. 
 de Malesherbes' letter was as follows:
 
 r ( 166 ) 
 
 Paris, December uth, 1792, 
 '** CITIZEN PRESIDENT^ 
 " I am yet uninformed whether the 
 " Convention will allow the defence of 
 " Lours 2Vl. to be undertaken 'by 
 " Counsel or not. If it be allowed, and 
 " the choice of Counsel be left to him, 
 *' I request that Lours XVI* may know 
 " that, if he thinks proper to choose 
 * me for that office, I am ready to un- 
 " dertake it. I do not ask you to make 
 " my offer known to the Convention, 
 *' for I am far from thinking myself of 
 vt 'sufficient importance to engage their 
 " attention : but I was twice appointed 
 " a Member of the Council of him 
 u who was my Master, at a time when 
 14 that office excited a general ambition: 
 " I feel it to be my duty to offer myself 
 " as his Counsel now that that duty is 
 " thought dangerous by many. If I
 
 " knew- any possible m&de-, of making 
 " my intention known, to him, I should. 
 " not take the liberty, of applying tq v 
 "you. I imagine-, the place you fill, 
 " affords you the means, mpre than,, 
 " any other person, pf se.n^nghimjWs, 
 " information. 
 
 " I am, with respeft, 8cc. 
 (Signed) " L. DE,MALESH^RBI:S* W ' 
 
 His Majesty said : " I .receive with*. 
 " sensibility the offers of the gentlemea 
 " who desire to be my Counsel, , and ,i I 
 " request you to express my acknow-v 
 " ledgments to them, I accept that > oil 
 " M. de Malesherbes. If I .cannot have . 
 "M. Tranche?* services,.! ishall consult 
 
 M. de Malesfierbfs.. oa the. choice- of 
 
 other."
 
 ( i68 ) 
 
 ON the I4th of December, M. Tronchet 
 had a conference with His Majesty, a- 
 greeably to the decree. On the same 
 day, yi.-de Malcsherbes was introduced 
 into the Tower : the King ran to meet 
 this venerable man, and pressed him af- 
 fe&ionately to his bosom, while the old 
 Statesman melted into tears at the sight 
 of his Master whether it was that the 
 first happy years of that Master's reign 
 rushed upon his memory, or rather 
 that he saw at that moment only the 
 virtuous man struggling with adver- 
 sity. As the King had permission to 
 consult with his Counsel in private, I shut 
 his chamber door that he might be able 
 to speak more freely with M. de Maies- 
 herbes ; for which I was reprimanded by 
 a Municipal Officer, who ordered me to 
 open it, and forbade my shutting it in 
 future; I opened the door, but His 
 
 Majesty
 
 ( 169 ) 
 
 Majesty had withdrawn to the turret- 
 closet* 
 
 In this first conference, the King and 
 M. de Malesherbes spoke very loud : the 
 Commissioners, who were in the cham- 
 ber, listened to their conversation, and 
 could hear every thing. When M. de 
 Malesherbes was gone I informed His Ma- 
 jesty of the prohibition I had received 
 from them, and of the attention with 
 which they had listened to the confe- 
 rence, begging that he would himself 
 shut the door of his chamber when his 
 Counsel were with him ; which, in fu- 
 ture, he did. 
 
 On the 1 5th, the King received an 
 answer relative to his Family: which 
 was in substance, that the Queen and 
 Madame Elizabeth should have no com- 
 munication with the King during the 
 Y
 
 trial, but that his children might be with 
 him, if he desired it, on condition 
 that they were not allowed to see their 
 mother or their aunt, till his examina- 
 tion was concluded. The first moment 
 I eould speak to His Majesty in private, 
 I asked for his orders. " You see," said 
 the King, " the cruel dilemma in which 
 " they have placed me. I cannot think 
 " of having my children with me: as 
 " for my daughter, she is out of the 
 " question, and I know what pain the 
 " Queen would suffer in giving up my 
 " son : I must make the sacrifice." His 
 Majesty then repeated his orders for the 
 removal of the Prince's bed ; which I 
 immediately executed. I kept his linen 
 and cloaths, and sent him a change 
 every other day, as had been agreed upon 
 with Madame Elizabeth. 
 
 On the i6th, at four in the afternoon,
 
 
 there came another deputation of four 
 Members of the Convention: Valaze, 
 Cochon, Grandpre, and Duprat, part of the 
 Committee of Twenty-one, appointed to 
 superintend the King's trial. They 
 were accompanied by a Secretary^ a Ser- 
 geant,* and an Officer of the Guard be- 
 longing to the Convention : they brought 
 the King a copy of his impeachment, 
 and papers relative to the proceedings 
 against him, the greater part of which 
 were found at the Thuilleries in a secret 
 press in His Majesty's apartments, called 
 by Roland^ the iron press. ' 
 
 The reading of these papers, to the 
 number of one hundred and seven, last- 
 ed from four o'clock till midnight. They 
 were all read and marked by the King, 
 
 * Hitissier. 
 
 y 2
 
 ( 172 ) 
 
 as likewise copies of them, which were 
 left in his hands : the King sat at a large 
 table, with M. Tronchet by his side ; the 
 Deputies sat opposite to him. After the 
 reading of each piece, Valaze asked the 
 King if he had any knowledge of it, and 
 similar questions. His Majesty answered 
 yes or no, without further explanation. 
 A second Deputy gave him the pa- 
 pers and copies to sign, and a third 
 offered to read them over again each 
 time; with which His Majesty always 
 dispensed. It was the business of the 
 fourth to call- over the papers by 
 packets and by numbers, and the Secre- 
 tary entered them on a register one by 
 one as they were handed to the King. 
 
 His Majesty interrupted the sitting to 
 ask the Deputies of the Convention if 
 they would not go to supper ; to which 
 they consented, and I served a cold
 
 ( 173 ) 
 
 fowl and some fruit in the eating-room. 
 M. Tronchet would not take any thing, 
 and remained alone with the King in 
 his chamber. 
 
 l;:^-'-"^ w?fo?F:->ifKii? s ?;>" c*l$t*# '?' '**>& 
 A Municipal Officer, named Merceraut, 
 at that time a stone-cutter, and late Pre- 
 sident of the Commune of Paris, though 
 a chairman at Versailles before the Re- 
 volution, happened to be upon guard 
 at the Temple for the first time. He 
 had on his working cloaths, which wefe 
 in rags, an old worn-out round hat, a 
 leather apron, and his tri-colourcd scarf. 
 This fellow had the affectation to stretch 
 himself out by the King in an armed- 
 Lair, while His Majesty was sitting on 
 common chair ; and with his hat on 
 head, thee'd and thou'd* every body 
 addressed any conversation to him : 
 
 Tutoyer.
 
 the Members of the Convention were as- 
 tonished at it, and one of them, during 
 supper* asked me several questions con- 
 cerning this Merceraut, and of the man- 
 ner in which the Municipality treated 
 the King. To this I was going to an- 
 swer when another Commissioner told 
 him to discontinue his questions, that it 
 was forbidden to speak with me, and 
 that in the Council Chamber he should 
 be made acquainted with every particu- 
 lar he could desire. The Deputy, ap- 
 prehensive of having gone too far, made 
 no reply. 
 
 The examination was now resumed. 
 In the number of papers presented to 
 His Majesty he took notice of the decla- 
 ration which he had made on his return 
 from Varennes, when Messrs. Tronchet, 
 Barnave and Duport were appointed by 
 the Constituant Assembly to receive
 
 u 
 
 ( 173 ) 
 
 it. This Declaration had been signed by 
 the King, and the Deputies. < You will 
 :c admit the authenticity of this pa 
 " per," said the King to M. Tronchet, 
 your own signature is to it. v 
 
 Some of the packets contained plans 
 for a Constitution, with marginal notes 
 written in His Majesty's hand; se- 
 veral of which were in ink, and several 
 in pencil. Some registers of the Police 
 were also shown to the King, in which 
 there were informations written and 
 signed by his own servants : His Majesty 
 seemed much affefted by this proof of 
 ingratitude. These informers pretended 
 to relate occurrences that passed in th^ 
 King's or Queen's apartments in the Pa- 
 lace of the Thuilleries only to give more 
 appearance of probability to their ca- 
 lumnies.
 
 C 176 ) 
 
 After the Members of the deputation 
 had retired, the King took some refresh- 
 ment, and went to bed without com- 
 plaining of the fatigue he had suffered. 
 He only asked me if his Family had 
 been kept waiting for supper : on my 
 replying in the negative " I should 
 " have been afraid," said he, " that the 
 " delay would have made them uneasy." 
 He even had the goodness to find fault 
 with me for not supping before him. 
 
 Some days after, the four Members of 
 the Committee of Twenty-one, came a- 
 gain to the Temple. They read fifty-one 
 new papers to the King, which he signed 
 and marked as he had done the former, 
 making in the whole 158 papers of 
 which copies were left with him. 
 
 From the I4th to the 26th of Decem- 
 ber*
 
 ( 177 ) 
 
 ber, the King regularly saw his Counsel, 
 who came at five in the afternoon and 
 returned at nine. M. de Seze was added 
 to the number. Every morning M. de 
 Malesherbes brought his Majesty the 
 newspapers, and printed opinions of the 
 Deputies respecting his trial. He ar- 
 ranged the business for every evening, 
 and staid an hour or two with His Ma- 
 jesty. The King often had the conde- 
 scension to give me some of the printed 
 opinions to read, and would afterwards 
 ask me, what I thought of the opinion 
 of such a one. I told His Majesty, I 
 wanted words to express my indignation ; 
 " but you, Sire," said I, " I wonder how 
 
 w you can read it all without horror." 
 
 " I see the extent of men's wickedness," 
 replied the King, " and I did not be- 
 " lieve there were such in existence." 
 His Majesty never went to bed till he 
 z
 
 ( 178 ) 
 
 had read these different papers, and then, 
 in order not to involve M. de Malesherbes, 
 he took care to burn them himself, at 
 the stove in his closet. 
 
 I had by this time found a favourable 
 opportunity of speaking to Turgi, and 
 of charging him with news of the King 
 to Madame Elizabeth. Turgi apprized 
 me next morning, that, in giving him 
 her napkin after dinner, she had slipt 
 into his hand a little piece of paper, on 
 which she had punctured with a pin her 
 desire that I should beg the King to 
 write her a line with his own hand. 
 This I communicated to His Majesty 
 that same evening. As he had been fur- 
 nished with paper and ink since the 
 beginning of his trial, he wrote his Sister 
 a note, which he gave me unsealed, say- 
 ing, that it contained nothing that could 
 endanger me, and desired me to read it.
 
 ( 179 ) 
 
 In this last particular, I besought His 
 Majesty to allow me for the first time to 
 disobey him. 
 
 The next day I gave the note to 
 Turgi, who brought an answer in a ball 
 of cotton, which he threw under my 
 bed, as he passed my chamber door. His 
 Majesty saw with great pleasure that this 
 mode of hearing from his Family had 
 succeeded; and I observed to him that 
 it was easy to continue the correspon- 
 dence. On receiving notes from His 
 Majesty, I folded them into as small a 
 size as I could, and wound cotton about 
 them; I then put them into the cup- 
 board where the plates were kept for 
 dinner; Turgi found them there, and 
 made use of different means to return 
 me the answers. When I gave them to 
 the King, he always said with kindness 
 
 Z 3T. T $. f ,
 
 to me: Take care; you expose your- 
 " self too much." 
 
 The wax-tapers which the Commis- 
 sioners sent me, were tied up in pack- 
 ages. When I had coined a sufficient 
 quantity of the packthread, I observed 
 to the King, that it now depended on 
 himself to carry on the correspondence 
 with more dispatch, by conveying some 
 of this packthread to Madame Eliza- 
 beth, whose room was over mine, and 
 the window of which was in a direct 
 line above that of a small corridor, to 
 which my chamber opened. The Prin- 
 cess, in the night, could tie her letters to 
 this packthread, and let them down to 
 the window that was under her's. A 
 sort of screen, something resembling a 
 scuttle, at each window, prevented the 
 possibility of her letters falling into the 
 garden; and, by the same means, the
 
 Princess might receive answers. A little 
 paper and ink, of which the Queen and 
 Princesses had been deprived, might alsa 
 be tied to the packthread. The pro- 
 " je<5t is a good one," said His Majesty, 
 '* and we will make use of it, if that 
 * which we have hitherto employed 
 " should become impraaicable." & was 
 actually practiced in the sequel by the 
 King. He used always to wait till eight 
 o'clock at night for the purpose I then 
 shut the doors of my chamber and the 
 corridor, and talked with the Commis- 
 sioners, or engaged them at play, to di^ 
 vert their attention. 
 
 It was about this time that 
 one of the servants m. attendance, who 
 was father of a family, and had just re- 
 ceived his wages for two months, a- 
 mounting to 200 livres, was robbed in 
 the Temple. The loss to him was serious,
 
 The King, who had observed his dejec- 
 tion, being informed of the cause, de- 
 sired me to give him the 200 livres, and 
 to charge him at the same time not to 
 mention it to any body, and particularly 
 pot to attempt to thank him ; " for," 
 added the King, " that would be his de- 
 " struction." Marchand was sensibly 
 touched by His Majesty's bounty, but 
 still more so by the prohibition to express 
 his gratitude. 
 
 Since his separation from the Royal 
 Family, the King had constantly refused 
 to go down to the garden. When it was 
 proposed to him, his reply was: " I 
 " cannot think of going out by myself; 
 " I only found the walk agreeable by 
 " enjoying it with my Family." But, 
 though deprived of the dearest objects 
 of his L heart, and certain of the destiny 
 that awaited himself, he suffered not a
 
 complaint, nor a murmur, to escape 
 his lips. He had already forgiven his 
 oppressors. Every day, in his reading- 
 closet, he acquired new strength to sus- 
 tain his natural fortitude; and those 
 hours, which he passed out of it, were 
 spent in the details of a life always uni- 
 form, but always adorned with number- 
 less instances of goodness. He conde- 
 scended to treat me as if I had been 
 more than his servant. He behaved to 
 the Municipal Officers who guarded him 
 as if he had no reason to complain of 
 them, and talked with them, as he used 
 formerly to do with any of his subjects, 
 about their occupations, their families, 
 the advantages, and the duties of their 
 respective situations. They were asto- 
 nished at the justness of his remarks, at 
 the variety of his ideas, and at the me- 
 thod with which they were classed in his 
 memory. His object, in these conver-
 
 C 184 ) 
 
 sations, was-not to divert his mind from 
 the recollection of his sufferings ; his 
 sensibility was both active and strong, 
 but his resignation was still superior to 
 his misfortunes. 
 
 On the igth of December, breakfast 
 was brought as usual for the King; it 
 was Wednesday: but not thinking of 
 the Ember Weeks, I presented it to him : 
 " This is a fast-day," said he ; and I car- 
 ried the breakfast back to the eating- 
 room : when the Municipal Officer (one 
 Dorat de CuhieresJ said deridingly to me: 
 " No doubt you will follow your mas- 
 
 " ter's example, and fast too." " No, 
 
 " Sir," I replied, " I have need of some 
 " breakfast to-day." Some days after, 
 His Majesty gave me a newspaper to 
 read, which had been brought by M. de 
 Malesherbes, where I found this anecdote 
 
 entirely
 
 entirely misrepresented. " There," said 
 the King, " you will see that they have 
 " given you the character of a mischief 
 " maker; they would much rather have 
 " given you that of an hypocrite." 
 
 The same day, the iQth, at dinner, 
 the King said to me before three or four 
 Municipal Officers : " This day fourteen 
 " years you were up earlier than you 
 " were this morning." - 1 immediately 
 understood His Majesty, who added: 
 " My daughter was born that day." He 
 then exclaimed with emotion: " And 
 
 I" am I not to see her on her birth-day !" 
 ..... Some tears trickled down his cheeks, 
 and for a moment there was a respedlful 
 silence. 
 
 The King sent word to Madame 
 
 Royale, that he wished to know what 
 A a
 
 ( i86 ) 
 
 present she chose he should make her. 
 She desired to have an almanack like the 
 little Court Calendar ; which the King 
 ordered me to get, and also the Repub- 
 lican Almanack for him, which had 
 superseded the Royal Almanack. He 
 often looked it over, and marked the 
 names with a pencil. 
 
 The King was now soon to make his 
 appearance at the bar of the Conven- 
 tion. He had not been shaved since his 
 razors had been taken away, and his 
 beard had been very troublesome to 
 him. He was obliged to bathe his face 
 in cold water several times every day. 
 He desired me to procure for myself a 
 pair of scissars, or a razor ; for he did 
 not chuse to speak about it himself to 
 the Municipal Officers. I took the 
 liberty of suggesting that, if he would 
 appear as he was at the Assembly, the
 
 people would at least see with what bar- 
 barity the Council General had acted to- 
 wards him. " It does not become me," 
 said the King, " to take steps to excite 
 " commiseration." I applied to the Mu- 
 nicipal Officers, and next day the Com- 
 mune resolved that His Majesty's razors 
 should be returned, but that he was not 
 to have the liberty of using them except 
 in the presence of two of the Officers. 
 
 For three days before Christmas, the 
 King was more engaged than usual in 
 writing. At this time, a design was 
 formed of detaining him at the Feuillans 
 for a day or twOj that they might pass 
 sentence without adjourning. I had 
 even received orders to be ready to at- 
 tend him, and to collect what he might 
 want ; but the design was given up. On 
 Christmas day His Majesty wrote his 
 A a 2
 
 ( 188 ) 
 
 Will. I read, and copied it. at the time 
 when it was sent to the Council at the 
 Temple ; it was entirely written by the 
 King's own hand, with a few erasures. 
 I think it my duty here to set down this 
 monument of his innocence and of 
 his piety, now registered in Heaven. 
 
 THE WILL OF LOUIS XVI. 
 
 " IN THE NAME of the Holy Trinity, 
 of the Father, of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost; on the 25th day of De- 
 cember 1792, I, Louis XVI. King of 
 France, having been more than four 
 months immured with my Family in 
 the Tower of the Temple at Paris, by 
 those who were my subjects, and de- 
 prived of all communication whatsoever, 
 even with my Family, since the nth of 
 his inonth ; involved moreover in a
 
 trial, the issue of which, from the pas- 
 sions of men, it is impossible to foresee, 
 and for which there is neither pretence 
 nor foundation in any existing law ; 
 having God only for the witness of my 
 thoughts, and to whom I can address 
 myself, do hereby declare, in His 
 Presence, my last will, and the feelings 
 of my heart. 
 
 " I render my soul to God, its Creator, 
 beseeching him to receive it in his mercy, 
 and not to judge it according to its own 
 merits, but according to the merits of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ, who offered 
 himself a sacrifice to God his Father, for 
 us men, unworthy of it as we were, and 
 I above all others. 
 
 " I die in the union of our Holy Mo- 
 ther, the Catholic, Apostolic, and Ro- 
 man Church, which holds its powers by
 
 an uninterrupted succession from St. 
 Peter, to whom they were confided by 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 " I firmly believe, and acknowledge 
 all that is contained in the Creed and the 
 Commandments, of God and of the 
 Church, the Sacraments and Mysteries, 
 such as the Catholic Church teaches, 
 and has ever taught them. I have never 
 pretended to render myself a judge in 
 the different modes of explaining the 
 dogmas that divide the Church of 
 Christ ; but I have ever conformed, and 
 ever will conform, if God grant me life, 
 to the decisions which the superior Ec- 
 clesiastics of the Holy Catholic Church 
 have made, and shall make ; according 
 to the discipline of the Chvirch adopted 
 from the time of Jesus Christ. 
 
 I 
 
 grieve with all my heart for sueh
 
 of our brethren as may be in error : but 
 I presume not to judge them, and do not 
 the less love them all in Christ Jesus, as 
 we are taught to do by Christian charity. 
 I pray God to forgive me all my sins ! 
 I have endeavoured scrupulously to dis- 
 cover them, to detest them, and to 
 humble myself in his presence. Not 
 having it in my power to avail myself of 
 the ministry of a Catholic Priest, I pray 
 to God to receive the confession I have 
 made of them to him, and especially 
 my deep repentance for having put my 
 name (though against my will)' to in- 
 struments that may be contrary to the 
 discipline and belief of the Catholic 
 Church, to which I have always re- 
 mained from my heart sincerely at- 
 tached. I pray to God to accept my firm 
 resolution of taking the earliest oppor- 
 tunity, if he grant me life, to avail my- 
 self of the ministry of a Catholic Priest,
 
 to confess all my sins and receive the 
 Sacrament of Penitence. 
 
 " I intreat all whom I may have of- 
 fended through inadvertence (for I do 
 not recoiled: having ever willingly given 
 offence to any person), or to whom I 
 may have given any bad example or 
 scandal by my actions, to forgive the 
 evil I may have done them. I intreat all 
 charitable persons to unite their prayers 
 with mine, that I may obtain pardon of 
 God for my sins. 
 
 " I forgive with all my heart those 
 who have become my enemies without 
 my having given them any reasons for 
 so doing; and I pray God to forgive 
 them, as well as those who, through a 
 false or misconceived zeal, have done 
 me much evil. 
 
 " I
 
 ',;?. ( 193 ) 
 
 " I recommend to God, my wife and 
 my children, my sister and my aunts, 
 my brothers, and all who are related to 
 me by ties of blood, or in any other 
 manner whatsoever: I pray God more 
 especially to look with mercy upon my 
 wife, my children, and my sister, who 
 have been suffering a long time with me; 
 to support them by his grace, if they 
 lose me, and as long as they remain in 
 this perishable world. 
 
 " I recommend my children to my 
 
 . 
 
 wife : I have never doubted her mater- 
 nal tenderness. I particularly recom- 
 mend it to her to make them good Chris- 
 tians, and to give them virtuous minds ; 
 to make them look upon the pomps of 
 this world, if they are condemned to 
 experience them, as a dangerous and 
 transitory inheritance, and to turn their 
 
 Bb
 
 < 194 ) 
 
 thoughts to the only solid and durable 
 glory of eternity. I intreat my sister to 
 Continue her tenderness to my children, 
 and to be a mother to them should t ey 
 have the misfortune to lose their own, 
 
 " I intreat my wife to forgive me all 
 the evils she suffers on my account, and 
 whatever vexations I may have caused 
 her in the course of our union ; as she 
 may be assured that I harbour nothing 
 against her, should she suppose there 
 was any thing with which she might 
 reproach herself. 
 
 " I recommend most earnestly to my 
 children, after their duty to God, which 
 must always stand first, to continue 
 united together, submissive and obedient 
 to their mother, and grateful for all the 
 cares and pains she takes for them, and 
 in memory of me. I intreat them to
 
 ( 195 ) 
 
 look upon their aunt as a second mo- 
 ther. 
 
 " I recommend to my son, if he should 
 have the misfortune of becoming King, 
 to reflect, that he ought to devote himself 
 entirely to the happiness of his fellow 
 citizens ; that he ought to forget all ha- 
 tred and resentment, and particularly 
 in what relates to the misfortunes and 
 vexations I have suffered ; that he 
 cannot promote the happiness of a na- 
 tion but by reigning according to the 
 laws ; yet, at the same time, that a King 
 cannot enforce those laws, and do the 
 good which his heart prompts, unless 
 he be possessed of the necessary autho- 
 rity ; for that, otherwise, being fettered 
 in his operations, and inspiring no re- 
 speft, he is more hurtful than useful. 
 
 B b 2
 
 " I recommend to my son to take care 
 of all who were attached to me, as far as 
 circumstances may put it in his power : 
 to recollect that it is a sacred debt which 
 I have contracted with the children or 
 relations of those who have perished for 
 me ; and, lastly, of those who are them- 
 selves unfortunate on my account. 
 
 " I know that there are several per- 
 sons, formerly in my service, who have 
 not conducted themselves towards me as 
 they ought, and even shown ingratitude 
 towards me ; but I forgive them (in 
 times of tumult and effervescence we are 
 not always masters of ourselves) ; and I 
 intreat my son, if he should ever have 
 an opportunity, that he will think only 
 of their misfortunes, 
 
 " I wish I could here express my ac- 
 knowledgments to those who have
 
 ( 197 ) 
 
 evinced a true and disinterested attach- 
 ment for me : on the one hand, if I have 
 been keenly wounded by the ingratitude 
 and disloyalty of people who have expe- 
 rienced from me nothing but bounty, 
 either themselves or in the persons of 
 their relations or friends ; on the other 
 hand, I have had the consolation of see- 
 ing an attachment and concern mani- 
 fested for me by many on whom I never 
 bestowed a favour: I intreat them to 
 accept my best thanks. In the situation 
 in which things still remain, I should be 
 afraid of endangering them if I were 
 more explicit ; but I recommend it par- 
 ticularly to my son to seek occasions of 
 showing his acknowledgment. 
 
 " I think, however, that I should do 
 injustice to the sentiments of the nation, 
 if I hesitated openly to recommend to 
 my son M. de Chamilly and M. Hue,
 
 ( i 9 8 ) 
 
 whose sincere attachment to me prompt- 
 ed them to shut themselves up with me 
 in this melancholy habitation, and who 
 looked to become the unhappy vidtims 
 of that attachment. I also recommend 
 Clery to him, with whose services ever 
 since he has been with me I have had 
 every reason to be entirely satisfied. As 
 it is he who has remained with me to 
 the last, I intreat the Gentlemen of the 
 Commune, to see that my cloaths, 
 books, watch, purse, and the other small 
 articles that were lodged with the Coun- 
 cil of the Commune, be delivered to 
 him. 
 
 ' I also most freely forgive those who 
 were guards over me, for the ill treat- 
 ment and constraint they thought it 
 their duty to inflidt upon me. Some 
 there were whose souls were tender and 
 compassionate ; may their hearts enjoy
 
 ( 199 ) 
 
 that peace which should be the reward 
 of such dispositions. 
 
 " I request M. de Malesherbes, M. Tron- 
 chet, and M. de Seze, to receive here my 
 best thanks for, and acknowledgments 
 of, the sense I entertain of all the care 
 and trouble they have taken upon them- 
 selves for me. 
 
 " T conclude by declaring before God, 
 in whose presence I am about to appear, 
 that my conscience does not accuse me 
 with any of the crimes which are im- 
 puted to me. 
 
 " Written and signed by me, and a 
 duplicate hereof made, at the Tower of 
 the Temple,, on the 25th day of De- 
 cember 1792. 
 
 (Signed) " LOUIS."
 
 ( 200 ) 
 
 On the 26th of December, the King 
 was conducted the second time to the 
 bar of the Assembly : I had taken care 
 to have the Queen apprized of it, that 
 she might not be alarmed by the drums, 
 and the movements of the troops. His 
 Majesty set out at ten o'clock in the 
 morning, and returned at five in the 
 evening, still in the custody of Chain- 
 bon and S ant err e. In the evening, just as 
 the King got up from supper, M. de 
 Malesherbes, M. de Seze, and M. Tronchet, 
 arrived : he requested them to take some 
 refreshment, which was accepted only 
 by M. de She ; to whom His Majesty ex- 
 pressed his acknowledgments for the 
 trouble he had taken in his speech of 
 that day : the Gentlemen then withdrew 
 to the cabinet. 
 
 The next day,. His Majesty conde- 
 scended 

 
 ( 201 ) 
 
 scended to give me his defence, which 
 had been printed, after asking the Mu- 
 nicipal Officers if he might do it with- 
 out impropriety. The Commissioner, 
 Vincent, a builder, who had rendered 
 every service in his power to the Royal 
 Family, undertook to convey a copy of 
 it secretly to the Queen. When the 
 King was thanking him for executing 
 this little commission, he availed him- 
 self of the opportunity to ask His Ma- 
 jesty for something which he might 
 keep as having belonged to him. The 
 King untied his cravat, and made 
 him a present of it. Another time, he 
 gave his gloves to one who asked them 
 from the same motive. Even in the 
 eyes of many who guarded him, these 
 spoils had already become sacred. 
 
 On the first of January, I went to the 
 c c
 
 ( 202 ) ' 
 
 King's bed side, and in a low voice 
 begged his permission to present him 
 with my most ardent wishes for the ter- 
 mination of his misfortunes. " I accept 
 " your good wishes," said he, in an af- 
 fe&ionate manner, giving me one of 
 his hands, which I kissed and bathed 
 with my tears. As soon as he was up, 
 he requested a Municipal Officer to go 
 and ask how his Family were, and to 
 present them with his best wishes for 
 the new year. The Municipal Officers 
 were softened at the manner in which 
 these affecting words, as they referred 
 to the situation of the King, were 
 spoken. " Why," said one of them to 
 me, when His Majesty had returned to 
 his chamber, " Why does not he ask to 
 " see his Family ? Now that the pro- 
 " ceedings are gone through, there 
 " could be no difficulty in the way : but 
 " he must apply to the Convention."
 
 I 203 ) 
 
 The Municipal Officer who had gone 
 with the message to the Queen's apart- 
 ments, now returned, and informed 
 His Majesty that his Family thanked 
 him for his good wishes, and sent him 
 theirs. " What a new-year's day !" said 
 the King. 
 
 The same evening, I took the liberty 
 of remarking to him, that I was almost 
 sure of the consent of the Convention, 
 if His Majesty would ask to be allowed 
 to see his Family. " In a few days," 
 said the King, " they will not refuse 
 " me that consolation : I must wait." 
 
 The nearer the hour of pronouncing 
 judgment approached, if the proceed- 
 ing against the King can be so called, 
 the more were my fears and anguish in- 
 creased : I put a thousand questions to 
 c c 2
 
 ( 204 ) 
 
 the Municipal Officers, and all their an- 
 swers added to my terrors. My wife 
 still came every week to see me, and 
 gave me an exa& account of what was 
 passing in Paris. The public opinion 
 appeared always favourable to the King 
 and even burst out loudly at the theatres 
 Francois and Vaudeville. At the represen- 
 tation of the piece called VAmi des Lqix 
 at the former, every allusion to His Ma- 
 jesty's trial was caught and received with 
 the most unbounded applause. At the 
 latter, one of the characters in la Chaste 
 Suzanne, says to the two old men : " How 
 " can you be accusers and judges at the 
 " same timer"- The audience forced 
 the player to repeat this passage several 
 times over. I gave the King a copy of 
 VAmi des Loix. I often told him, and in- 
 deed had almost persuaded myself, that 
 the Members of the Convention, divided 
 against one another, would only sen-'
 
 tence him to confinement or banishment. 
 " May they," replied His Majesty, aft 
 " with that moderation to my Family ! 
 " I have no fear but for them." 
 
 Some persons gave me to- understand, 
 by means of my wife, that a considera- 
 ble sum, lodged with M. Parisot, the edi- 
 tor of the Daily Paper, was at the King's 
 disposal, concerning which I was desired 
 to apply to him for orders, and that the 
 sum should be paid into the hands of 
 M. de Malesherbes, if agreeable to His Ma- 
 jesty. I gave the King an account of it. 
 
 Thank those persons in my name," 
 replied he, " I cannot accept their gene- 
 " rous offers, it would endanger them." 
 I begged him at least to speak of it to 
 M. de Malesherbes, which he promised me 
 to do. 
 
 The correspondence between their
 
 ( 206 ) 
 
 Majesties was still kept up ; and the King 
 being informed that Madame Royale 
 was ill, continued very uneasy for some 
 days ; till the Queen, after much entrea- 
 ty, obtained the attendance of M. Bru- 
 nier> Physician of the Children of France, 
 on which his mind seemed to be relieved. 
 
 On Tuesday, the I5th of January, 
 the day before the King was to receive 
 judgment, his Counsel came to him as 
 usual : when M. de Seze and M. Tronchet 
 apprized His Majesty of their absence 
 the next day. 
 
 On Wednesday morning, the i6th, M. 
 de Maksherbes staid a considerable time 
 with the King, and told His Majesty as 
 he went away that he would come and 
 give him an account of the votes as 
 soon as he knew the result of them ; 
 but the sitting being prolonged at night
 
 ( 207 ) 
 
 to a very late hour, the decree was not 
 pronounced till the morning of the 
 iyth. 
 
 In the evening of the i6th, at six 
 o'clock, four Municipal Officers entered 
 the room and read a decree of the Com- 
 mune to the King, importing in sub- 
 stance" that he should be kept in 
 " sight, night and day, by the said 
 " four Municipal Officers, and that two 
 " of them should stay all night by his 
 
 " bed side." The King asked if the 
 
 judgment had been pronounced : one of 
 them fdu RoureJ having first seated 
 himself in the armed-chair that belong- 
 ed to His Majesty, who was standing, 
 answered that he did not trouble himself 
 about what was passing at the Conven- 
 tion, but, however, he had heard say, 
 that they were still voting. A few mo-
 
 ments after, M. de Malesherbes came in, 
 and informed the King that the votes 
 were not all yet taken. 
 
 At this time, the chimney of a cham- 
 ber, where the wood-carrier* of the Tem- 
 ple Palace lodged, took fire. A conside- 
 rable crowd got into the Court. A Mu- 
 nicipal Officer in great alarm ran in to 
 desire M. de Malesherbes to retire imme- 
 diately ; he went away after assuring the 
 King that he would return to let him 
 know the judgment. I then asked the 
 Municipal Officer what it was that 
 frightened him ? " The Temple is set 
 " on fire," said he ; " it has been done on 
 " purpose to save Capet in the tumult ; 
 " but I have had the walls surrounded 
 " by a strong guard." We soon heard 
 
 * Fires in France are generally made with wood. 
 
 that
 
 that the fire was extinguished, and that 
 it had arisen from a mere accident. 
 
 On Thursday, January 17 th, M. de 
 Malesherhes came about nine o'clock in 
 the morning : I ran to meet him : " All 
 " is lost," said he; " the King is con- 
 " demned." The King, who saw him 
 coming, rose to receive him. The Mi- 
 nister threw himself at his feet ; his voice 
 was stifled with sobs, and, for several 
 moments, he could not utter a word. 
 The King raised him, and pressed him 
 to his bosom with warmth. M. de Ma- 
 lesherbes then made known to him the 
 decree sentencing him to death. The 
 King shewed no mark of surprise or agi- 
 tation : he seemed affefted only at the 
 grief of that venerable old man, and 
 even endeavoured to console him. 
 
 DC!
 
 ( 210 ) 
 
 M. de Malesherbes gave His Majesty an 
 account of the result of the votes. In- 
 formers, relations, personal enemies, 
 kity, clergy, absent members, had in- 
 discriminately given their opinions ; yet, 
 notwithstanding this violation of all 
 forms, those who were for death, some 
 as a political necessity, others pretending 
 to believe the King really guilty, a- 
 mounted to a majority of FIVE ONLY. Se- 
 veral members had .voted for death con- 
 ditionally to be suspended. A new call 
 qf votes upon this question had been re- 
 solved ; and it was to be presumed that 
 the voices of those who were for post- 
 poning, thje perpetration of the regicide, 
 joined to the suffrages against the sen- 
 tence being capital, would have formed 
 the majority. But at the gaies of the 
 Assembly,. assassins, -devoted to the Duke 
 of Orleans, and to the Deputies of Paris, 
 by their cries terrified, and with their
 
 ( 211 ) 
 
 pbignards menaced, whoever "'sHbuld re- 
 fuse to become an accomplice ; and thus, 
 whether from stupefaction or indiffe- 
 rence, the capital did not dare, or did 
 not chuse, to make a single attempt to 
 save their King. 
 
 M. de Malesherbes was preparing to go : 
 the King desired, and was permitted, to 
 speak with him in private. He took him 
 to his closet, shut the door, and remained 
 about an hour alone with him. k His 
 Majesty then conducted him to the outer 
 door, desired he would return early in 
 the evening, and not forsake him in his 
 last moments. " The grief of this good 
 " old man has deeply affected me," said 
 the King to me, as he came back to his 
 chamber, where I was waiting for him. 
 
 From the arrival of M. de Malesherbes 
 D d 2
 
 I had been seized with a trembling 
 through my whole frame : however, I 
 got every thing ready for the King to 
 shave. He put on the soap himself, 
 standing up and facing me while I held 
 his bason. Forced to stifle my feelings, 
 I had not yet had resolution to look at 
 the face of my unfortunate Master ; but 
 my eyes now catching his accidentally, 
 my tears ran over in spite of me. I 
 know not whether seeing me in that 
 state put the King in mind of his own 
 situation or not, but he suddenly turned 
 very pale : at the sight, my knees trem- 
 bled and my strength forsook me ; the 
 King, perceiving me ready to fall, caught 
 me by both hands, and pressing them 
 warmly, said, in a gentle voice, " Gome, 
 " more courage." He was observed; 
 the depth of my affliction was mani- 
 fested by my silence, of which he seemed 
 sensible. His countenance was reani- 

 
 ; ( 2I 3 ) 
 
 mated, he shaved himself with compo- 
 sure, and I then dressed him. 
 
 His Majesty remained in his chamber 
 till dinner-time, employed in reading or 
 walking. In the evening, seeing him 
 go towards his closet, I followed him, 
 under pretence that he might want my 
 attendance. You have heard," said 
 the King to me, " the account of the 
 
 ' sentence pronounced against me ?" 
 
 ' Ah! Sire," I answered, " hope that 
 
 * it will be superseded; U. de Malesherbes 
 
 " believes that it will." I seek no 
 
 "hope," replied the King, but I grieve 
 " exceedingly to think that Monsieur 
 
 * ^Orleans, my relation, should have 
 *< voted for my death : read that list." 
 He then gave me the list of voters, which, 
 he had in his hand. " The public," I 
 observed, " murmurs greatly : Dumou- 
 ' rier is in Paris ; it is said that he en-
 
 " te-rtains favourable intentions, and that 
 " he brings with him the sentiments of. 
 " his army against the proceedings on 
 " your Majesty's trial. The people is 
 " shocked at. the infamous conduct of 
 " Monsieur d'Or leans.- It is also reported 
 " that the foreign Ambassadors will 
 " meet and go to the Assembly. In- 
 " deed, it is confidently asserted, that the 
 " Members of the Convention are afraid 
 
 " of- a popular insurrection." " I 
 
 " should be very sorry to have if take 
 " place," replied the King; " for then 
 " there would be new victims. I do not 
 " fear death," added His Majesty; " but 
 " I cannot, without shuddering, con- 
 " template the cruel lot which I leave 
 "behind me, to my Family, to the 
 ' 4 Queen, to our unfortunate children, 
 " and those faithful servants, who have- 
 ;< never abandoned me, and those old. 
 * men, whose subsistence depended up-
 
 4 on.the little pensions I allowed them ! 
 ' who will succour and protect them ? 
 1C J see the people delivered over a prey 
 ' to anarchy, become the vidims of 
 " every fadion, crimes succeed crimes, 
 " long dissensions tear France in pieces." 
 Then, after a-moment's pause: * Oh! 
 " my God !" he exclaimed, " is this' the 
 ' reward which I must receive for all 
 " my sacrifices ? Have I not tried every 
 ' thing to ensure the happiness of the 
 French people ?" In pronouncing 
 these words, he seized and pressed both 
 my hands : penetrated with a holy re- 
 spect, I bathed his with my tear3 ; and 
 in that state was under the necessity of 
 breaking from him. The King ex- 
 pected M. de Malesherbes, but in vain. 
 At night he asked me if he had been 
 at the Temple: I had put the same 
 question to the Commissioners, who 
 had all answered, no.
 
 ( 216 ) 
 
 On Friday, the iSth, the King was 
 exceedingly uneasy at hearing no news 
 of M. dc Maleshcrbes, He happened to 
 take up an old Mercurede France , where 
 he found a riddle #, which he gave me 
 to guess ; but not being able to do it 
 " What, can't you find it out ?" said he, 
 " and yet it is at this moment very ap~ 
 " plicable to me : Sacrifice is the word." 
 He then ordered me to look in the li- 
 brary for the volume of Hume's History 
 of England that contained the death of 
 Charles I. which he read the following 
 days. I found, on this occasion, that 
 His Majesty had perused, since his com- 
 ing to the Temple, two hundred and 
 fifty volumes. At night, I took the 
 
 * Lovogriphs, a particular sort of riddle, where the 
 word meant is described, by the different words and names 
 which may be made out of some or all the letters. 
 
 i liberty
 
 liberty of observing to him, that he" 
 could not be deprived of his Counsel 
 without a decree of the Convention, and 
 that he might demand their admission 
 to the Tower. " Let us wait till to- 
 " morrow," was his reply. 
 
 On Saturday the I9th, at nine in the 
 morning, a Municipal Officer named 
 Gobeau, came in, holding a paper in his 
 hand : he was accompanied by the War- 
 den of the Tower, one Mathey, who 
 brought a standish. The Municipal Of- 
 ficer told the King, that he had orders to 
 take an inventory of the furniture and 
 other effects. His Majesty left me with 
 him, and retired to the turret. The 
 Municipal Officer then, under pretence 
 of taking the inventory, began a very 
 minute search, to be certain, as he said, 
 
 that no arms or sharp instruments had 
 E e
 
 ( 218 ) 
 
 been secreted in His Majesty's chamber. 
 A small desk remained to be examined, 
 which contained papers : the King was 
 compelled to open every drawer in it, 
 and to remove and show every paper, 
 one after the other. There were three 
 rouleaus at the bottom of one of the 
 drawers, the contents of which they de- 
 sired to see. " It is," said the King, 
 " money which does not belong to me, 
 " but to M. de Maleshcrbes : I had put it 
 " up for the purpose of giving it to 
 " him." The three rouleaus contained 
 three thousand livres in gold ; on each 
 was written, in the King's hand, for M. 
 dc Maleshcrbes. 
 
 While the same search was making in 
 the turret, His Majesty went into his 
 chamber, and wanted to warm himself. 
 Mathey, the Warden, was standing be- 
 fore the fire, with his back to it, and
 
 his coat-flaps tucked up under his arms. 
 As he scarcely left room on either side 
 for the King to warm himself, and con- 
 tinued insolently standing in the same 
 place, His Majesty, with some quick- 
 ness, told him to leave a little more 
 room : on which He withdrew, and was 
 soon after foUowed by the Municipal 
 Officers, having concluded their scru- 
 tiny. 
 
 In the evening the King desired the 
 Municipal Officers to enquire of the 
 Commune upon what grounds they ob- 
 jected to his Counsel's coming to the 
 Tower, requesting to have at least some 
 conversation with M. de Malesherbes. 
 They promised to mention it ; but one 
 of them confessed that they had been 
 forbidden to lay before the Council Ge- 
 neral any application from Louis XVI. 
 E e 2
 
 ( 220 ) 
 
 but what should be written and signed 
 by himself. " Why," replied the King, 
 " have I been left two whole days igno* 
 " rant of this alteration ?" He then 
 wrote a note, and gave it to the Muni- 
 cipal Officers; who, however, did not 
 carry it to the Commune till the next 
 morning. The King desired to have a 
 free communication with his Counsel, 
 and complained of the resolution or- 
 dering him to be kept in sight both 
 night and day. " It must be supposed," 
 said he, in his note to the Commune, 
 " that, in the situation I now am, it is 
 " very painful for me not to have it in 
 " my power to be alone, and not to be 
 " allowed the tranquillity necessary to 
 " colle6l myself." 
 
 On Sunday, the 2oth of January, the 
 King, the moment he was up, enquired of 
 the Municipal Officers if they had laid his
 
 request before the Council of the Com- 
 mune, which they assured him they had 
 done immediately. About 10 o'clock, 
 on my going into the King's chamber, 
 he said : " I do not see that M. de Males- 
 " herbes comes." " Sire," said I, " I have 
 " just learnt that he came several times, 
 " but was always refused admission into 
 
 " the Tower." " I shall soon know 
 
 " the grounds of this refusal," replied 
 the King, " as the Commune have, no 
 46 doubt before this time, considered my 
 " letter." He employed himself the 
 rest of the morning in walking about 
 his chamber, and in reading and writ- 
 ing. 
 
 Just as the clock had struck two, the 
 door was suddenly thrown open, for 
 the Executive Council. About a dozen 
 or fifteen persons came forward at once. 
 Carat, the Minister of Justice, k. Brun,
 
 ( 222 ) 
 
 Minister for Foreign Affairs, Grouvelle, 
 Secretary to the Council, the President, 
 and the Procurator-General-Syndic of the 
 Department, the Mayor, and Solicitor 
 to the Commune, the President and 
 Public Accuser of the Criminal Tribu- 
 nal. Santerre, stepping before the others, 
 told me to announce the Executive 
 Council. The King who had heard the 
 noise they made in coming in, had got 
 up, and advanced some steps, but at sight 
 of this train he stopt between his cham- 
 ber door and that of the antichamber in 
 a most noble and commanding attitude. 
 I was close by him. Garat, with his 
 hat upon his head, addressed him thus : 
 " Louis, the National Convention has 
 " charged the Provisionary Executive 
 " Council to make known to you itsde- 
 " creesof the J5th, i6th, lyth, igth and 
 " soth of January. The Secretary of the 
 " Council will read them to you," On
 
 which Grouvelle, the Secretary, unrolled 
 the decree, and read it with a weak an4 
 tremulous voice. 
 
 Decrees of the National Convention of tht 
 15^, i6th, ijth, iqth and zoth of Ja 
 nuary. 
 
 ARTICLE I. . 
 
 The National Convention declares 
 Louis Capet, the last King of the French, 
 guilty of a conspiracy against the li- 
 berty of the Nation, and of an attempt 
 against the general safety of the State. 
 
 ARTICLE IL 
 
 The National Convention decrees that 
 Louis Capet shall sufter the punishment 
 of death. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 The National Convention declares null 
 and void the instrument of Louis Capet,
 
 ( 224 ) 
 
 brought to the Bar by his Counsel, enti- 
 tled, " An Appeal to the Nation against 
 the Judgment passed upon him by the 
 Convention ;" and prohibits every one 
 whosoever to pay any attention to it, on 
 pain of being prosecuted and punished 
 as guilty of an attempt against the ge- 
 neral safety of the Republic. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 The Provisionary Executive Council 
 shall give notice of the present decree 
 in the course of the day to Louis Capet, 
 and shall take proper measures to carry 
 the same into execution within twenty- 
 four hours after such notice given, and 
 shall give a full account thereof to the 
 National Convention immediately after 
 it is executed. 
 
 While this was reading, no alteration 
 
 took
 
 ( 225 ) 
 
 took place in the King's countenance; 
 I observed only in the first article, at 
 the word conspiracy, a smile of indigna- 
 tion appear upon his lips ; but at the 
 words shall suffer the punishment of death, 
 the heavenly expression of his face, 
 when he looked on those around him, 
 showed them that death had no terrors 
 for innocence. The King stept forward, 
 and took the decree from the hands of 
 the Secretary Grouvelle, folded it up, and 
 put it into his pocket-book, from which 
 he took out another paper, and present- 
 ing it to the Minister Garat, desired he 
 would deliver that letter immediately to 
 the National Convention. The Minister 
 appearing to hesitate, the King added, 
 " I will read it to you :" and without the 
 least change of countenance, read what 
 follows. 
 
 Ff
 
 ( 226 ) 
 
 " I demand a delay of three days that 
 I may be able to prepare myself for ap- 
 pearing before God. I also for that pur- 
 pose demand that I may freely see the 
 person whom I shall point out to the 
 Commissioners of the Commune ; and 
 that that person may be ensured from 
 all fear and all uneasiness on account of 
 the aft of charity he will bestow upon 
 
 " I demand to be freed from the in- 
 cessant inspe&ion which the Council 
 General have for some days past esta- 
 blished.'' 
 
 " I demand, in that interval, to be 
 empowered to see my Family at the 
 time I shall appoint, and without a wit- 
 ness. I earnesly wish that the National 
 Convention would immediately take in- 
 to their consideration the state of my
 
 ( 2*7 ) 
 
 Family, and that they may be permitted 
 freely to go wherever they think pro- 
 per." 
 
 ' I recommend to the bounty of the 
 Nation at large those persons who were 
 dependent upon me: there are very 
 many of them who had sunk their 
 whole fortune in their places, from the 
 loss of which they must now be in great 
 want; and others who never had any 
 thing to live upon but their appoint- 
 ments : among the pensioners, there 
 are many old men, women and children, 
 who have also no other support." 
 
 " Done at the Tower of the Temple, 
 the 2oth of January, 1793. 
 
 (Signed) LOUIS," 
 Ff 2
 
 ( 228 ) 
 
 Gar at took the King's letter, and said 
 he was going with it to the Convention. 
 As he was leaving the room, His Majesty 
 felt again in his pocket, took out his 
 pocket-book, and, presenting a paper 
 from it, said: " Sir, if the Conven- 
 " tion agrees to my demand of the per- 
 " son I desire, here is his address." He 
 then gave it to a Municipal Officer. This 
 address, written in a different hand from 
 the King's, was : Monsieur Edgeworth de 
 Firmont, No. 483, Rue du Bacq. The 
 King went back a few steps, and the 
 Minister, with those who accompanied 
 him, went away. 
 
 His Majesty walked about his cham- 
 ber for an instant. I remained standing 
 against the door, my arms crossed, and 
 as one deprived of all feeling. The 
 King came up to me, and bade me 
 order his dinner. Shortly after, two 
 Municipal Officers called me into the 

 
 ( 229 ) 
 
 eating-room, where they read me a re- 
 solution, importing, " that Louis should 
 " use neither knife nor fork at his meals, 
 but that his valet-de-chambre should 
 be trusted with a knife to cut his 
 bread and meat, in the presence of 
 " two Municipal Officers, and that af- 
 < c terward the knife should be taken 
 *' away." The two Municipal Officers 
 charged me to inform the King of this, 
 which I refused to do. 
 
 On entering the eating-room, the 
 King saw the tray in which was the 
 Queen's dinner : he asked why his Fa- 
 mily had been made to wait an hour 
 beyond their time, and said the delay 
 would alarm them. He then sat down 
 to table. " I have no knife," said he. 
 The Municipal Officer, Minier, then 
 mentioned the resolution of the Com- 
 mune. " Do they think me such a
 
 ( 230 ) 
 
 " coward," said the King, " as to make 
 " an attempt on my own life ? They 
 " have imputed crimes to me, but I am 
 " innocent of them, and shall die with- 
 " out fear. Would to God my death 
 " might be productive of happiness to 
 " the French, or could avert the mise- 
 " ries I foresee." A profound silence 
 ensued. The King eat a little : he help- 
 ed himself to some stewed beef with 
 a spoon, and broke his bread. He was 
 at dinner but a few minutes. 
 
 I was sitting in my chamber, a prey 
 to the deepest affliction, when about six 
 in the evening, Gar at returned to the 
 Tower. I went to announce him to the 
 King, but Santerre, who was before him, 
 walked up to His Majesty, and in a low 
 voice, with a smile upon his face, 
 said: Here is the Executive Council," 
 The Minister coming forward, told the
 
 King that he had carried his letter to the 
 Convention, which had charged him to 
 deliver the following answer : " That 
 " Louis should be at liberty to send for 
 " any Minister of worship he should 
 " think proper, and to see his Family 
 " freely and without witness; that the 
 " Nation, ever great and ever just, 
 " would take into consideration the 
 " state of his Family; that proper in- 
 " demnifications would be granted to 
 " the creditors of his household; and 
 " that respedling the delay of three days, 
 " the National Convention had passed 
 " to the order of the day." 
 
 On this reply the King made no ob- 
 servation, but returned to his chamber, 
 where he said to me : " I thought, from 
 " Sa?iterris air and manner that he came 
 " to inform me of the delay being grant- 
 " ed." A young Municipal Officer,
 
 whose name was Botson, seeing the King 
 speak to me, approached us; and the 
 King said to him : " You seem concerned 
 " at my fate ; accept my thanks for it." 
 The Municipal Officer, surprized, knew 
 not what to answer; and I was myself 
 astonished at His Majesty's expressions ; 
 for this Municipal Officer, who was 
 scarcely two-and-twenty, and of a mild 
 and engaging figure, had said only a 
 few minutes before : " I desired to be on 
 " duty at the Temple to see the grimaces 
 " he will make to-morrow." It was of 
 the King that he spoke." And I too," 
 subjoined Merccraut, the stone-cutter, 
 whom I mentioned before : " every 
 " body refused to take the duty; I would 
 " not give up this day for a good deal 
 " of money." Such were the vile and 
 ferocious men whom the Commune pur- 
 posely
 
 ( 233 ) 
 
 posely named to guard the King in his 
 last moments. 
 
 For the last four days the King had not 
 seen his Counsel. Such of the Com- 
 missioners as had shown themselves con- 
 cerned for his misfortunes, avoided corn- 
 ing near the place. Among so many 
 subjects to whom he had been a father, 
 among so many Frenchmen whom he 
 had loaded with his bounties, there was 
 but a single servant left with him to par- 
 ticipate in his sorrows. 
 
 After the answer from the Convention 
 was read, the Commissioners took the 
 Minister of Justice aside, and asked him 
 how the King w r as to see his Family. 
 " In private," replied Carat, " it is so 
 *' intended by the Convention." Upon 
 M r hich the Municipal Officers com- 
 
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 ( 234 ) 
 
 municated to him the resolution of the 
 Commune, which enjoined them not to 
 lose sight of the King, night or day. 
 It was then agreed between the Munici- 
 pal Officers and the Ministers, in order 
 to reconcile these two opposite resolu- 
 tions, that the King should receive his 
 Family in the eating-room, so as to be 
 seen through the glazed partition, but 
 that the door should be shut that they 
 might not be heard. 
 
 His Majesty called the Minister of Jus- 
 tice back, to ask if he had sent to M. de- 
 Firmont. Garat said he had brought 
 him with him in his carriage, that he 
 was with the Council, and was coming 
 up. His Majesty gave 3000 livres in 
 gold to a Municipal Officer, named 
 Baudrais, who was talking with the Mi- 
 nister, which he begged him to deliver 
 to M. dc Malesherbet) to whom they be-
 
 ( 235 ) 
 
 longed. The Municipal Officer pro- 
 mised he would, but immediately car- 
 ried them to the Council, and this mo- 
 ney never was paid to M. de Malesherbes. 
 M, de Firmont now made his appearance; 
 the King took him to the turret and 
 shut himself in with him. Garat being 
 gone, there remained in His Majesty's 
 apartment only three Municipal Offi- 
 cers. 
 
 At eight o'clock, the King came out 
 of his closet, and desired the Municipal 
 Officers to condudt him to his Family : 
 they replied, that could not be, but 
 his Family should be brought down, 
 if he desired it. " Be it so," said the 
 King ; " but I may at least see them 
 " alone in my chamber." " No," re- 
 joined one of them, " we have settled 
 " with the Minister of Justice, that it 
 eg 2
 
 " shall be in the eating-room.''* 
 
 " You have heard," said His Majesty, 
 " that the decree of the Convention 
 " permits me to see them without wit- 
 " nesses." " True," replied the Of- 
 ficers, " you will be in private : the door 
 " shall be shut, but we shall have our 
 
 " eyes upon you through the glass." 
 
 " Let my Family come," said the King. 
 
 In the interval, His Majesty went in- 
 to the eating-room: I followed him, 
 placed the table aside, and set chairs at 
 the top to make room. The King de- 
 sired me to bring some water and a 
 glass. There being a decanter of iced 
 water standing on a table, I brought 
 only a glass, which I placed by it ; on 
 which he told me to bring water that 
 was not "iced, for if the Queen drank 
 that, it might make her ill. " Go," 
 added His Majesty, " and tell M. de Fir-
 
 " mont not to leave the closet', lest my 
 " Family should be shocked on seeing 
 " him." The Commissioner who had 
 gone for them, staid a quarter of an 
 hour ; during which time, the King re- 
 turned to his closet, but from time to 
 time came to the entry-door in extreme 
 agitation. 
 
 At half past eight, the door opened. 
 The Queen came first, leading her son 
 by the hand ; Madame Royale and Ma- 
 dame Elizabeth followed. They all threw 
 themselves into the arms of the King. 
 A melancholy silence prevailed for 
 some minutes ; and it was only broken 
 by sighs and sobs. The Queen made 
 an inclination towards His Majesty's 
 chamber. " No," said the King, " let 
 " us go into this room, I can see you on- 
 " ly there." They went in, and I shut 
 the glass-door. The King sat down ; the
 
 r 238 ) 
 
 Queen was on his left hand, Madame 
 Elizabeth on his right, Madame Royale 
 nearly opposite, and the young Prince 
 stood between his legs : all w r ere leaning 
 on the King, and often pressed him in. 
 their embraces. This scene of sorrow 
 lasted an hour and three quarters, dur- 
 ing which it was impossible to hear any 
 thing. It could, however, be seen, that, 
 after every sentence uttered by the King, 
 the agitation of the Queen and Prin- 
 cesses increased, lasted some minutes, 
 and then the King began to speak again. 
 It was plain, from their gestures, that 
 they received from himself the first in- 
 telligence of his condemnation. 
 
 At a quarter past ten, the King rose 
 first; they all followed. I opened the 
 door. The Queen held the King by his 
 right arm : Their Majesties gave each a 
 hand to the Dauphin. Madame Royale,,
 
 ( 239 ) 
 
 on the King's left, had her arms round 
 his body; and, behind her, Madame 
 Elizabeth, on the same side, had taken 
 his arm. They advanced some steps to- 
 wards the entry-door, breaking out into 
 the most agonizing lamentations. " I 
 * assure you," said the King, " that I 
 " will see you again to-morrow morn- 
 
 v ing, at eight o'clock." " You pro- 
 
 " mise?" said they all together. " Yes, 
 
 " I promise." " Why not at seven 
 
 " o'clock ?" said the Queen. " Well ! 
 
 *' yes, at seven," replied the King ; 
 it farewell!" He pronounced " Fare- 
 " well" in so impressive a manner, that 
 their sobs were renewed, and Madame 
 Royale fainted at the feet of the King, 
 round whom she had clung. I raised 
 her, and assisted Madame Elizabeth to 
 support her. The King, willing to put 
 an end to this agonizing scene, once 
 more embraced them all most tenderly,-
 
 ( 240 ) 
 
 and had the resolution to tear himself 
 from their arms. " Farewell! farewell!" 
 said he, and went into his chamber. 
 
 The Queen, Princesses, and Dauphin, 
 returned to their own apartments. I at- 
 tempted to continue supporting Ma- 
 dame Roy ale, but the Municipal Of- 
 ficers stopt me before I had gone up two 
 steps, and compelled me to go in. 
 Though both the doors were shut, the 
 screams and lamentations, of the Queen 
 and Princesses were heard for some time 
 on the stairs. The King returned to his 
 Confessor in the turret closet. 
 
 He came out in half an hour, and I 
 put supper upon the table ; the King eat 
 little, but heartily, 
 
 After supper, His Majesty returning 
 
 to
 
 ( 241 ) 
 
 to the closet, his Confessor came out in 
 a few minutes, and desired the Munici- 
 pal Officers to conduct him to the Coun- 
 cil Chamber. It was to request that he 
 might be furnished with the garments 
 and whatever else was necessary for per- 
 forming Mass early the next morning. 
 M. de Firmont did not prevail without 
 great difficulty in having his request 
 granted. The articles wanted for the 
 service were brought from the church 
 of the Capuchins of the Marais, near the 
 Hotel de Soubise, which had been form- 
 ed into a parish. On returning from the 
 Council Chamber, M. de Firmont went 
 directly to the King, who accompanied 
 him to the turret, where they remained 
 together till half past twelve. I then 
 undressed the King, and, as I was going 
 to roll his hair, he said : " It does not 
 " signify." Afterwards, when he was in 
 Hh
 
 ( 242 ) 
 
 bed, as I was drawing his curtains ? 
 " Clery, you will call me at five o'clock." 
 
 He was scarcely in bed before he fell 
 into a profound sleep, which lasted, 
 without interruption, till five. M. de 
 Firmont, whom His Majesty had per- 
 suaded to take some rest, threw himself 
 upon my bed ; and I passed the night 
 on a chair in the King's chamber, pray- 
 ing God to support his strength and his 
 courage. 
 
 On hearing five o'clock strike I began 
 Q light the fire. The noise I made 
 awoke the King, who, drawing his cur- 
 tains, asked if it had struck five. I said 
 it had by several clocks, but not yet by 
 that in the apartment. Having finished 
 with the fire, I went to his bed-side. 
 " I have slept soundly," said his Ma- 
 jesty ; " I stood in need of it ; yesterday
 
 ( 343' y 
 
 " was a fatiguing day to me. Where is 
 " M. de Firmont ?" I answered, on my 
 
 bed. " And where were you all 
 
 " night ?" " On this chair." - I 
 
 " am sorry for it," said the King. 
 
 " Oh! Sire," replied I, " can I think of 
 " myself at this moment?" He gave 
 me his hand, and tenderly pressed mine, 
 ; j ^nrj* er' 1 .rf "W^f&ivr 
 1 then dressed His Majesty; during 
 which time, he took a seal from his 
 watch and put it into his waistcoat 
 pocket ; the watch he placed on the 
 chimney-piece : then taking off his ring 
 from his finger, after looking at it again 
 and again, he put it into the pocket 
 with the seal. He changed his shirt, 
 put on a white waistcoat, which he 
 wore the evening before, and I helped 
 him on with his coat. He then emptied 
 his pockets of his pocket-book, his glass, 
 Hh 2
 
 ( 244 ) 
 
 his snuff-box, and some other things, 
 which, with his purse also, he deposited 
 on the chimney-piece : this was all done 
 without a word, and before several Muni- 
 cipal Officers. As soon as he was dressed, 
 the King bade me go and inform M. de 
 Firmont of it, whom I found already 
 risen, and he immediately attended His 
 Majesty to the turret. 
 
 Meanwhile, I placed a chest of drawers 
 in the middle of the chamber, and ar- 
 ranged it in the form of an altar for say- 
 ing Mass. The necessary articles had 
 been brought at two o'clock in the morn- 
 ing. The Priest's garments I carried into 
 my chamber, and, when every thing 
 was ready, I went and informed His 
 Majesty. He asked me if I was ac- 
 quainted with the service. I told him 
 I was, but that I did not know the 
 responses by heart. He had a book in
 
 ( 245 ) 
 
 his hand, which he opened, and, find- 
 ing the place of the Mass, -gave it me: 
 he then took another book for himself. 
 The Priest was then dressing. Before 
 the altar, I had placed an armed- chair for 
 His Majesty, with a large cushion on 
 the ground : the cushion he desired me 
 to take away, and went himself to his 
 closet for a smaller one, made of hair, 
 which he commonly made use of at his 
 prayers. When the Priest came in, the 
 Municipal Officers retired into the anti- 
 chamber, and I shut one fold of the 
 door. The. Mass began at six o'clock. 
 There was a profound silence during 
 the awful ceremony. The King, all the 
 time on his knees, heard Mass with the 
 most devout attention ; and received the 
 Communion. After the service His 
 Majesty withdrew to his closet, and the 
 Priest went into my chamber, to put off 
 his official attire.
 
 ( 246 ) 
 
 I seized this moment of going to the 
 King. He took both my hands into his, 
 and said, with a tone of tenderness, 
 " CLery^ lam satisfied with your attentions." 
 
 " Ah ! Sire," said I, throwing myself 
 
 at his feet, " why cannot I, by my death, 
 " satisfy these butchers, and preserve a 
 " life of so much value to every good 
 " Frenchman. Hope, Sire ! they will 
 
 " not dare to strike the blow." 
 
 u Death," said he, " does not alarm me ; 
 " I am quite prepared for it; but do 
 " not you expose yourself. I mean to 
 " request that you should remain with 
 " my Son. Take every care of him in 
 " this horrid abode : bring to his mind, 
 " tell him all the pangs I suffered for 
 " the misfortunes entailed upon him. 
 ' The day perhaps may come when he 
 ' will have it in his power to reward 
 
 " your zeal." Oh! my Master! 
 
 " Oh ! my King !" cried I, if the most
 
 C 
 
 " absolute devotion, if my zeal, if my 
 " attentions have been agreeable to 
 u you, the only reward I desire of 
 " your Majesty is to receive your bles- 
 " sing : do not refuse it to the last 
 " Frenchman remaining with you." I 
 was still at his feet, holding one of his 
 hands : in that state he granted my re- 
 quest, and blessed me ; then raising me, 
 pressed me to his bosom, saying, " give 
 " it to all who are in my service : and 
 " tell Turgi I am pleased with his con- 
 " dudt. Now go," added he, " and give 
 " no room for suspicion against you." 
 Then calling me back, and taking up a 
 paper which he had put upon a table : 
 " Here," said he, " is a letter I received 
 " from Pction, on your coming to the 
 " Temple ; it may be of use to you in 
 " staying here." I again seized his hand, 
 which I kissed, and retired. " Farewell 1" 
 he again said to me, " farewell 1"
 
 C 
 
 I went to my chamber, where I found 
 M. de Firmont on his knees, praying by 
 my bed-side. " What a Monarch!" 
 said he, rising ; " with what resignation 
 " and fortitude does he go to meet 
 " death ! He is as calm, as composed, as 
 " if he had been hearing Mass in his 
 " own Palace, and surrounded with his 
 
 " Court." " I have this moment," said 
 
 I, " been taking the most affecting leave 
 " of him : he deigned to promise me 
 " that he would request my being per- 
 " mitted to continue at the Tower, in 
 " the service of his son. I beg you, Sir, 
 " when he goes out, to put him in mind 
 " of it, for I shall never more have the 
 
 " happiness of seeing him alone." 
 
 " Be composed," said M. de Firmo?it, and 
 rejoined the King. 
 
 At seven o'clock, the King, coming 
 
 out
 
 out of his closet, called to me, and tak- 
 ing me within the recess of the window, 
 said: " You will give this Seal fa) to my 
 " Son....this Ring fb) to the Queen, and 
 " assure her that it is with pain I part 
 * with it...this little packet contains the 
 " hair of all my Family, you will give 
 
 " her that too * Tell the Queen, my 
 
 " dear Children, and my Sister, that al- 
 " though I promised to see them this 
 " morning I have resolved to spare them 
 " the pangs of so cruel a separation: 
 *' tell them how much it costs me to go 
 " without receiving their embraces once 
 " more !" He wiped away some tears ; 
 then added, in the most mournful ac- 
 cent : " I charge you to bear them my 
 4< last farewell!" He returned to the 
 turret. 
 
 * See the Notes and Fac-simile at the end of the 
 Volume. 
 
 I i
 
 f 250 ) 
 
 The Municipal Officers, who had 
 come up, heard His Majesty, and saw 
 him give me the things, which I still 
 held in my hands. At first they desired to 
 have them given up ; but one of them 
 proposing to let them remain in my 
 possession, till the Council should decide 
 what was to be done, it was so agreed, 
 
 In a quarter of an hour after, the King 
 again came out : " Enquire," said he to 
 me, " if I can have a pair of scissars." I 
 made the request known to the Com^ 
 rnissioners. " Do you know what he 
 
 " wants to do ?" " I know nothing 
 
 ?- c about it." " We must know." I 
 
 knocked at the door of the closet, and 
 the King came put. The Municipal 
 Officer, who had followed me, said to 
 him : " You have desired to have a pair 
 
 # of scissars ; but, before the request is 
 
 # made to the Council, we must know
 
 t 
 
 " what you want to do with them." His 
 Majesty answered : " It is that Ctery may 
 " cut my hair." The Municipal Officers 
 retired ; one of them went down to the 
 Council Chamber, where, after half an 
 hour's deliberation, the scissars were re- 
 fused. The Officer came up^ and ac- 
 quainted the King with the decision. 
 " I did not niean tti touch the scissars," 
 said His Majesty ; " I should have desired 
 "* Clery to cut my hair before you : tiy 
 " once more, Sir ; I beg you to represent 
 " my request*" The Officer went back 
 to the Council, who persisted in their 
 refusal. 
 
 It was at this time that I was told to 
 prepare myself to accompany the King, 
 in order to undress him on the scaffold. 
 At this intelligence I was seized with 
 terror ; but collecting all my strength, I 
 112
 
 was getting myself ready to discharge this 
 last duty to my Master, who felt a re- 
 pugnance to its being performed by the 
 executioner, when another Municipal 
 Officer came and told me that I was 
 not to go out, adding : " The common 
 " executioner is good enough for him." 
 
 All the troops in Paris had been under 
 arms from five o'clock in the morning. 
 The beat of drums, the clash of arms> 
 the trampling of horses, the removal of 
 cannon, which were incessantly carried 
 from one place to another, all resounded 
 at the Tower. 
 
 At half after eight o'clock, the noise 
 increased, the doors were thrown open 
 with great clatter, when Santcrre, accom- 
 panied by seven or eight Municipal Offi- 
 cers, entered at the head of ten soldiers, 
 and drew them up in two lines. At this
 
 ( 253 ) 
 
 movement, the King came out of his 
 closet, and said to Santerre : " You are 
 come for me ?" " Yes," was the an- 
 swer. " A moment," said the King, 
 
 and went to his closet, from which he 
 instantly returned, followed by his Con- 
 fessor. His Majesty had his Will in his 
 hand, and addressing a Municipal Offi- 
 cer, (named Jaques Roux, a priest,) who 
 happened to stand before the others, said : 
 " I beg you to give this paper to the 
 
 " Queen to my wife." " It is no bu- 
 
 " siness of mine," replied he, refusing 
 to take it ; " I am come here to conduct 
 " you to the scaffold." His Majesty 
 then turned to Gobeau, another Munici- 
 pal Officer. " I beg," said he, " that 
 " you will give this paper to my wife; 
 " you may read it ; there are some par- 
 " tictilars in it I wish to be made known 
 " to the Commune."
 
 ( 
 
 1 was standing behind the King, near 
 the fire-place, he turned round to me* 
 and I offered him his great coat. " I 
 " don't want it," said he, " give me only 
 " my hat." I presented it to him his 
 hand met mine, which he pressed once 
 more for the last time. " Gentlemen," 
 said he, addressing the Municipal Officers,- 
 " I should be glad that Clery might stay 
 " with my son, as he has been accus- 
 " tomed to be attended by him ; I trust 
 " that the Commune will grant this 
 " request." His Majesty then looked at 
 Santerre, and said : " Lead on." 
 
 These were the last words he spoke ill 
 his apartments. On the top of the stairs 
 he met Mathey, the Warden of the 
 Tower, to whom he said: " I spoke 
 " with some little quickness to you the 
 " day before yesterday, do not take it ill." 
 Mathey made no answer, and even af*
 
 feded to turn from the King while he 
 was speaking, 
 
 I remained alone in the chamber, 
 overwhelmed with sorrow, and almost 
 without sense of feeling. The drums 
 and trumpets proclaimed His Majesty's 
 departure from the Tower .... An hour 
 after, discharges of artillery, and cries of 
 Vive la Nation ! Vive la Republique ! were 
 heard . , , , The best of Kings was no 
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 the purpose of lay.ng my manuscript at the King's feet. When hi< 
 Majesty came to this part of my journal, he looked into his de k 
 and with emotion showing me a seal, asked me if I recollefted it t-1 
 T replied, it was the same. If you could doubt it," continued the 
 read this note." I trembled as I took it. I rrrnam^ t | 
 
 
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