An assassination which should kill the king or queen would still leave the monarchy, the laws of the kingdom, and the princes inheritors of the throne.

He could not mount to it except over the dead bodies of five persons placed by nature between himself and his ambition.

These steps of crime could only have incurred the execrations of the nation, and must have even wearied the assassins themselves.

Besides, he proved by numerous and undeniable witnesses that he had not gone to Versailles either on the 4th or 5th of October.

Quitting Versailles on the 3rd, after the sitting of the National Assembly, he had returned to Paris.