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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 2 (of 6)

CHAPTER IV
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They spoke of bringing the King to Paris as well as the Dauphin.

All virtuous citizens, every incorruptible patriot, was exhorted to set out immediately for Versailles."] [Footnote 1429: These acts of violence were not reprisals; nothing of the kind took place at the banquet of the body-guards (October 1st).
"Amidst the general joy," says an eye-witness, "I heard no insults against the National Assembly, nor against the popular party, nor against anybody.

The only cries were 'Vive le Roi! Vive la Reine! We will defend them to the death!'" (Madame de Larochejacquelein, p.40 .-- Ibid.

Madame Campan, another eye-witness.)--It appears to be certain, however, that the younger members of the National Guard at Versailles turned their cockades so as to be like other people, and it is also probable that some of the ladies distributed white cockades.
The rest is a story made up before and after the event to justify the insurrection .-- Cf.

Lerol, "Histoire de Versailles," II.


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