According to one, the king had taken the road to Metz, to another, the royal family had escaped by a drain.

Camille Desmoulins excited the people's mirth as the most insulting mark of their contempt.

The walls of the Tuileries were placarded with offers of a small reward to any one who would bring back the noxious or unclean animals that had escaped from it.

In the garden, in the open air, the most extravagant proposals were made.

"People," said one of these orators, mounting on a chair, "it will be unfortunate, should this perfidious king be brought back to us,--what should we do with him?
He would come to us like Thersites to pour forth those big tears, of which Homer tells us; and we should be moved with pity.