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and holding the little Dauphin by one hand and her daughter by the other, she appeared on the balcony, and calmly looked down on the masses. ‘No children!’ was the greeting she received ; ‘no children!’ The children were sent back, and she stood facing the threatening throng alone. At this moment Lafayette, whose peaceful and opportune slumbers had been undisturbed by the turmoil of the morning, turned up on the balcony and wishing to pose as the queen’s saviour, kissed her hand in a theatrical manner. Abashed by her courage, the emotional people broke into a loud ery of ane live the queen !’ But this revulsion of feeling was shortlived. ‘To Paris!’ howled the people; ‘To Paris!’ Always yielding and good-natured the king returned to the balcony, pinned on his breast the new tricolor cockade, the emblem of liberty, took an oath of fidelity to the nation, said he would comply with their demand, and ordered his carriage to convey him to Paris. With these words and this act the king sealed his doom and that of his family. Preceded by the savages, who bore on pikes the heads of the murdered guards, a long file of hackney coaches containing the citizens and sixty vans laden with the flour they had pillaged, the viragoes marched and danced along the road to Paris. ‘Now bread will be plentiful, as we have the baker, the