All the doors were burst in, or fell beneath the shoulders and axes of the multitude.

They shouted loudly for the king; only one door separated them, and this door was already yielding beneath the efforts of levers and blows of pikes from the assailants.
XVIII.
The king, relying on Petion's promises, and the number of troops with which the palace was surrounded, had seen the assemblage of the mob without uneasiness.
The assault suddenly made on his abode had surprised him in complete security.

Retired with the queen, Madame Elizabeth, and his children to the interior apartments on the side of the garden, he had heard the distant thunder of the crowd without expecting that it was so soon to burst on him.

The voices of his frightened servants, flying in all directions, the noise of doors burst open and falling on the floors, the shouts of the people as they approached, threw alarm suddenly amongst the family party, which had met in the king's bed-chamber.

The prince, confiding, by his look, his wife, sister, and children to the officers and women of the household who surrounded them, went alone to the _Salle du Conseil_.