The Swiss in good order marched down the staircase, drove out the mob, seized the cannon the Marseillais had brought, and turning them upon their assailants opened fire.

The mob fled in terror, and I believe that one battalion would have conquered all the scum of Paris, had not the king, at the sound of the first shot, sent word to the Swiss to cease firing.
They obeyed, and although the mob kept firing upon them from the windows, the great part of them marched calm, and without returning a shot, to the Assembly, where, at the order of the king, they laid down their arms and were shut up in the church of the Feuillants.
"A portion of the Swiss had remained on guard in the Tuileries when the main body marched away.

The instant the palace was undefended the mob burst in.

Every Swiss was murdered, as well as many of the servants of the queen.

The mob sacked the palace and set it on fire.