"Sire," said she, "will the King of France teach his son to take
breakfast, while revolution is thundering without, and breaking
down, with treasonable hands, the doors of the royal palace? Campan,
come here--help me arrange my toilet; I want to prepare myself to
give audience to revolution!"
And withdrawing to a corner of the room, the queen finished her
toilet, for which her women fortunately had in their flight brought
the materials.
While the queen was dressing and the king breakfasting with the
children, the cabinet of the king began to fill. All Louis's
faithful servants, then the ministers and some of the deputies, had
hurried to the palace to be at the side of the king and queen at the
hour of danger.
Every one of them brought new tidings of horror. St. Priest told how
he, entering the Swiss room, at the door leading into the
antechamber of the queen, had seen the body of Varicourt covered
with wounds. The Duke de Liancourt had seen a dreadful man, of
gigantic size, with heavy beard, the arms of his blouse rolled up
high, and bearing a heavy hatchet-knife in his hand, springing upon
the person of the faithful Swiss, in order to sever his head from
his body. The Count de Borennes had seen the corpse of the Swiss
officer, Baron de Deshuttes, who guarded the iron gate, and whom the
people murdered as they entered.
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