The governor subsequently named by Louis XVI., M.de Fleurieu, never entered upon his duties.

The governor of the heir to an empire was the gaoler of a prison of malefactors.
The Marquis de Bouille addressed from Luxembourg a threatening letter to the Assembly, in order to turn from the king all popular indignation, and to assume to himself the projection and execution of the king's departure.

"If," he added, "one hair of the head of Louis XVI.

fall to the ground, not one stone of Paris shall remain upon another.

I know the roads, and will guide the foreign armies thither." A laugh followed these words.