"-- No pretext, indeed, for a conflict now exists.
An assault on the insurgent side is useless, since the monarch, with all belonging to him and his government, have left the palace.

On the other side, the garrison will not begin the fight; diminished by 150 Swiss and nearly all the grenadiers of the Filles-Saint-Thomas, who served as the King's escort to the Assembly, it is reduced to a few gentlemen, 750 Swiss, and about a hundred National Guards; the others, on learning that the King is going, consider their services at an end and disperse.[2687]--All seems to be over in the sacrifice of royalty.

Louis XVI.

imagines that the Assembly, at the worst, will suspend him from his functions, and that he will return to the Tuileries as a private individual.

On leaving the palace, indeed, he orders his valet to keep up the service until he himself returns from the National Assembly.[2688] He did not count on the exigencies, blindness and disorders of the riot.
Threatened by the Jacobin gunners remaining with their artillery in the inside courts, the gatekeepers open the gates.