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every denomination, and all creeds were placed on the same footing. With the nobility the Assembly dealt in a more puerile, though an equally despotic manner. Not only were all titles of nobility, orders of knighthood, liveries, and armorial bearings abolished, but to stem the swelling tide of emigration, it was decided that the property of every emigrant would be confiscated : measures for which the nobles and priests revenged themselves by fomenting discord and anarchy among the people. The position of the ill-fated monarch was daily growing more lamentable. For some months after his arrival in Paris he still indulged in fond illusions. He lived in regal state, and the strict etiquette of Versailles was maintained. He was still supported by a strong Royalist party, and from his mobile and emotional subjects he received occasional demonstra- tions of loyalty. On the first anniversary of the destruction of the Bastille, while the people were dancing on its site, the King, on the spot where next year’s exhibition is to be held, took part in a national pageant of great splendour. The general in command of the National Guards, and the president of the National Assembly, took the oath of fidelity to the nation and king; the king swore to govern by the constitution ; the queen held up the dauphin to the crowd, and exclaimed that