Paris past & present . Petit Homme Rouge showedhimself to Louis XIV. Followed ruinous anddisastrous war, the death of the Duke de Bour-goyne and his wife within six days of eachother, then the Kings own death, leaving thecrown to an infant, and the people to themercy of a profligate regent during a longminority. Louis XV was called by his people Le BienAimee,* when he first mounted the throne; butthey came to hate him more than they had everhated any of his predecessors before they weredone with him. His reign was a long one, butone day, he met the Little Man in Red, andsoon afterward he caugh
Paris past & present . Petit Homme Rouge showedhimself to Louis XIV. Followed ruinous anddisastrous war, the death of the Duke de Bour-goyne and his wife within six days of eachother, then the Kings own death, leaving thecrown to an infant, and the people to themercy of a profligate regent during a longminority. Louis XV was called by his people Le BienAimee,* when he first mounted the throne; butthey came to hate him more than they had everhated any of his predecessors before they weredone with him. His reign was a long one, butone day, he met the Little Man in Red, andsoon afterward he caught the smallpox andwas ere long carried to Saint Denis. It may have been that Louis XVI, who hadto pay with his head for all the tyrannical do-ings of his ancestors, also saw the butchersghost the first night after he slept in the Tuil-eries, when the mob had forced the Royal fam-ily to move into Paris from Versailles, but thelegend does not tell us so. I L SSitfcr^ I: 1^-- it r tit « I ^ ^ I r - -^ t -», ^^ ;;^. L I 1 P — tTji-y iLjT-^ BRUTALITY OF SANTEREE. 317 On the 20tli of June, 1792, the sans culottesgathered in the Place du Carrousel and forcedtheir way into the palace of the Tuileries. Forsix long hours the Koyal family were forced towitness a deiile of the vilest scum through theirrich apartments. The King and the Queen wereseated at the council table ; while the PrincessElizabeth sat beside her sister-in-law, who heldthe young Dauphin in her arms and from timeto time stood him on the table for the people tolook at. One fellow, as he passed, took off hisred caj) and placed it on the head of the infantPrince, who began to laugh and amuse himselfby peeping out from under it at the crowd;whereupon Santerre, noticing that this babyincident was putting the rabble into a goodhumour, brutally shouted : ? Take off that cap!Dont you see it is stifling the child ? Among the spectators of the extraordinaryscene was a yoinig lieutenant of artillery, who,as he walked away
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