A battalion of the national guard defended the approach to this iron gate.
The weakness or complaisance of a municipal officer freed the passage, and the battalion fell back, and took up its ground beneath the windows of the Chateau.

The crowd traversed the garden in an oblique direction, and passing before the battalions, saluted them with cries of _Vive la nation!_ bidding them take their bayonets from their muskets.

The bayonets were removed, and the mob then passed out by the entrance of the Port Royal, and fell back upon the gates of the Carrousel, which shut off this place from the Seine.

The guards at these wickets again gave way, to allow a certain number of the malcontents to enter, and then shut the doors.

These men, excited by their march, songs, the acclamations of the Assembly, and by intoxication, rushed with furious clamours into the court-yards of the Chateau.