The king, at the foot of the staircase, had asked Roederer: "what will become of the persons remaining above ?" "Sire," he replies, "they seem to be in plain dress.
Those who have swords have merely to take them off, follow you and leave by the garden." A certain number of gentlemen, indeed, do so, and thus depart while others escape by the opposite side through the gallery of the Louvre.] [Footnote 2688: Mathon de la Varenne, "Histoire particuliere," etc., 108.

(Testimony of the valet-de-chambre Lorimier de Chamilly, with whom Mathon was imprisoned in the prison of La Force.] [Footnote 2689: De Lavalette, "Memoires," I.81.

"We there found the grand staircase barred by a sort of beam placed across it, and defended by several Swiss officers, who were civilly disputing its passage with about fifty mad fellows, whose odd dress very much resembled that of the brigands in our melodramas.

They were intoxicated, while their coarse language and queer imprecations indicated the town of Marseilles, which had belched them forth."] [Footnote 2690: Mortimer-Ternaux, II.

314, 317 (questioning of M.de Diesbach).