Near her sat the king, between them the dauphin. Opposite to
them, on the broad, front seat, were their daughter Therese, the
Princess Elizabeth, and Madame de Tourzel, governess of the royal
children. Behind them, in a procession, whose end could not be seen,
followed an artillery train; then the mob, armed with pikes, and
other weapons-men covered with blood and dust, women with
dishevelled hair and torn garments, the most of them drunken with
wine, exhausted by watching during the night, shouting and yelling,
and singing low songs, or mocking the royal family with scornful
words. Behind these wild masses came two hundred gardes du corps
without weapons, hats, and shoulder-straps, every one escorted by
two grenadiers, and they were followed by some soldiers of the Swiss
guard and the Flanders regiment. In the midst of this train rattled
loaded cannon, each one accompanied by two soldiers. But still more
fearful than the retinue of the royal equipage were the heralds who
preceded it--heralds consisting of the most daring and defiant of
these men and women, impatiently longing for the moment when they
could announce to the city of Paris that the revolution in
Versailles had humiliated the king, and given the people victory.
They carried with them the bloody tokens of this victory, the heads
of Varicourt and Deshuttes, the faithful Swiss guards, who had died
in the service of their king.
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