In vain did M.
Roederer, a firm organ of the constitution, and the superior officers of the national guard, such as MM.

Acloque and De Romainvilliers, present the text of the law, ordering them to repel force by force.

The Assembly set the example of complicity; and the mayor, Petion, by his absence avoided responsibility.

The king took refuge in his inviolability; and the troops, abandoned to themselves, could not fail to yield to threats or seduction.
In the interior of the palace, two hundred gentlemen, at the head of whom was the old marshal De Mouchy, had hastened together at the first news of the king's danger.

They were rather the voluntary victims of ancient French honour, than useful defenders of the monarchy.