At intervals, orchestras filled with musicians sounded forth the pealing notes of glory and public joy.

M.de La Fayette rode on horseback at the head of his staff.

His presence seemed to place the oaths of the people and the king under the guard of the armed citizens.

The king, the queen, and their children appeared in their carriage at eleven o'clock in the evening.

The immense crowd that surrounded them as if in one popular embrace,--the cries of _Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine! Vive le Dauphin!_--hats flung in the air, the gestures of enthusiasm and respect, made for them a triumph on the very spot over which they had passed two months previously in the midst of the outrages of the multitude, and deep murmuring of the excited populace.