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(i; Ade) ordered the troops to fire on the insurgents and attempted to force his way through the barricade, he might have been saved ; but unwilling, as usual, to shed the blood of his subjects, he patiently submitted, and surrendered himself and _ his family into the hands of the deputies from the Assembly, who had arrived from Paris, atoning by his self- sacrifice for the errors of his reign. After two days of indescribable anguish and suffering, the royal family of France arrived in Paris, where they were received by an immense multitude, whose silence was ominously significant. During those painful days the queen never lost her calmness and dignity, but when she rose the morning after her return her hair had grown white. Paris at once became the scene of insurrections and mas- sacres, and the Assembly passed a decree declaring that the king would be deposed if he broke his oath to the Constitution by encouraging an in- vasion of the country. On the 14th September, 1791, that constitution was formally adopted and approved by the king, and on the 30th of that month the Assembly declared itself dissolved. This day marks a new departure in the Revo- lution, which I must reluctantly refrain from fol- lowing. With the meeting of the new Assembly, which styled itself the Convention, the Revolution assumed a distinctly republican character; and from