. The life and letters of Madame Élisabeth de France. the help of the Commune of Paris, of General Santerre, andof the National Assembly, to stop designs which were notconcealed, and that for six hours it was uncertain whetherthe royal family would or would not be massacred. Thetruth is the factious were not yet all-powerful; the leaders,though agreed as to the regicide, were not agreed as to themethod of executing it, and perhaps the Assembly desiredthat other hands than its own should be the instrument ofthe conspiracy. A circumstance sufficiently remarkable isthat the municipal made me pay
. The life and letters of Madame Élisabeth de France. the help of the Commune of Paris, of General Santerre, andof the National Assembly, to stop designs which were notconcealed, and that for six hours it was uncertain whetherthe royal family would or would not be massacred. Thetruth is the factious were not yet all-powerful; the leaders,though agreed as to the regicide, were not agreed as to themethod of executing it, and perhaps the Assembly desiredthat other hands than its own should be the instrument ofthe conspiracy. A circumstance sufficiently remarkable isthat the municipal made me pay him forty sous which thetri-colour ribbon had cost him. By eight oclock that evening all was quiet in the neigh-bourhood of the Tower, but the same tranquillity was veryfar from reigning in Paris, where the massacres continuedfor four or five days. I had an opportunity while undress-ing the king to tell him what I had seen and give him thedetails I had heard. He asked me which were the muni-cipals who had shown the greatest firmness in defending the. THE TOWER OF THE TEMPLE. 1792] THE CAPTIVITY OF LOUIS XVI. 125 lives of his family. I told him of Daujeon, who had checkedthe impetuosity of the people, though he was far from beingin favour of the king. That municipal did not return to theTower until four months later, but the kmg remembered hisconduct and thanked him then. The scenes of horror of which I have just spoken werefollowed by some tranquillity, so that the royal family con-tinued the uniform system of life which they had adoptedon entering the Temple. That the reader may foUow itsdetails easily, I think I ought to place here a description ofthe small tower in which the king was then confined. It backed upon the large Tower, without any interior com-munication between the two, and it formed an oblong squareflanked by two small, corner towers \tourelles\. In one ofthese small towers was a little staircase that started fromthe second floor and led up to a gallery along t
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