The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-08-25
THE REIGN OF TERRI E.
HOW 1T BEGAN IN PARIS a
HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
The Mob That Passed Through the As
sembly Rooms and Forced It's
Way Into the Tuilerie;-
Unfortunate Queen.

Unfortunate Queen.
All the night preceding the goth Of
June 1892. political meetings were
protracted in the revolutionary quar-
ters OF Paris and the fever of excite
ment was kept up by fraternal dele
cations sent from one to another.
During the morning turbulent crowds
gathered in the streets and about
noon two different mobs started off in
procession. picked up the idlers along
the route, ard soon united to bear
down upon the building OF former
riding-school where the legislative
assembly was in session. There was
a halt made, and Santerre sent in
note to the assembly, saying that the
inhabitants of tbs Faubourg Saint
Antoine were celebrating the ami
versary of the oath OF the tennis
court and desired to pay their re-
spects. With a mob howling at it's
doors the assembly debated for two
hours whether it should receive it's
visitors coming thus in warlike ar
ray. People were jammed into
the building so tightly that they could
move neither forward nor back. 9th
ers overAowed into an old convent
garden near by. planted for a liberty
tree a poplar that had been brought
along by the procession. and made
things generally lively. A gate was
at length forced open. and the weary
multitude swarmed over the Tuiler1es
garden, but the leaders did not want
the agitation to end in mere pleas
ure promenade and ordered the drums
beaten to call the people back to the
assemblys doors. There a deputa-
ton was admitted to read furious
petition to the legislators and per-
mission was then granted for the citi-
zens to march through the hall. The
brewer and the dissipated marquis
headed the procession and stopped
beneath the rostrum to see their fol-
lowers pass by. For over an hour
an immense throng of riotous men,
women and children hurried past
some with weapons. some brandish-
ing sabres. pixies hatchets scythes.
knives and other murderous tools.
There were squads of uniformed mem
bers of the national guard in the
mass; some people danced; musicians
played the revolutionary air of Ca
ira," and hoarse voices sang it; one
man carried an old pair of breaches
on his pike inscribed with Long live
the sans-culottes, and another swung
aloft a Calls bloody heart labeled
The heart of the aristocrat" The
procession over the leaders presented
the assembly with a flag in token of
gratitude, and the session ended for a
time
After leaving the legislative as
sembly many of the crowd. began to
wend their way homeward, and it
looked as if the royal palace were not
to be invaded. But the adjoining
Place du Carrousel suddenly became
blocked with surging masses of hui
mainly, and agitators urged the peo-
pie to demand admission to the Tuil-
cries. This was refused by two gen.
darmos standing with crossed bayou
cts at the door, but delegation of
twenty or thirty persons was admitted
to present a petition to the king:
The mob now insisted upon having
what was denied it; cannons were
brought up and aimed at the closed
door; and regular siege was Just
about to begin when a voice from
within cried not to fire. for the door
would be opened. As it swung upon
its hinges In rushed the rabble with
such impetuosity that heavy cannon
was carried along until it stuck fast
IN the door of the third room and had
to be cut away with axes. Reaching
the room where the king and his few
faithful defenders WERE the savage
men in front yelled to be let in and
began battering down the door. A
grenadier told the king not to be
afraid and the monarch heroically
replied: mo I am not afraid. Put
your hand upon my heart; it is calm"
and he pressed the soldiers hand to
his breast Then Louis XVI, COM
manded the door to be opened and
the populace was Immediately face to
face with royalty.
| The king was conducted into a re-
cess made by a window whore he
oe'A'A!y oohCu tAe people WnaC they
wanted. but his voice was drowned in
the shouts of Down with Monsieur
Veto! To the devil with Vetou' and
similar imprecations Among that
mixed multitude there must have been
not few miscreants who would have
been glad of a chance to assassinate
the king but his own courage and
that of his defenders saved him. The
eech-naking butcher thus began an
angry harangue to the monarch:
Sir. listen to us. you are made to
listen to us. You are /: traitor; YOU
have always deceived us; you are
still deceiving us. but look out for
yourself; the measure is full and the
people are tired Of being your play.
| thing
Another man passed over a red
liberty cap to the king, who put it on
his head amid great applause, and he
also brandished a sword received from
woman's hands. Again and again
the mob yelled for the veto to be
withdrawn and the dismissed minis.
tiers to be recalled, but the king main
tanned dlgnlfied silence upon these
L