I have learnt during my journey that public opinion was decided in favour of the constitution, and so soon as I learnt the general wish I have not hesitated, as I never have hesitated, to make the sacrifice of what concerns myself for the public good." "The king," added the queen, in her declaration, "desiring to depart with his children, I declare that nothing in nature could prevent my following him.

I have sufficiently proved, during two years, and under the most painful circumstances, that I will never separate from him." Not content with this inquiry into the motives and circumstances of the king's flight, public opinion, much irritated, demanded that the hand of the nation should be extended even to the paternal authority, and that the Assembly should appoint a governor for the dauphin.

Eighty names, for the most part of obscure persons, were found in the division which was openly taken.

They were hailed with shouts of general derision.

This outrage to the king and father was spared him.