"A mighty breach is made; the rooms conceal'd Appear, and all the palace is reveal'd; The halls of audience, and of public state-- And where the lovely Queen in secret sate, Arm'd soldiers now by trembling maids are seen With not a door, and scarce a space between." _Æneid_, book ii.--S. [216] Prudhomme, tom. iii., p. 117; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 139; Madame Campan, vol. ii., p. 212. [217] Prudhomme, tom. iii., p. 117; Mignet, tom. i., p. 178; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 142; Campan, vol. ii., p. 212. [218] Napoleon was a witness of this scene from the gardens of the Tuileries. "While we were leading," says De Bourrienne, "a somewhat idle life, the 20th June arrived. We met that morning, as usual, in a coffee-room, Rue St. Honoré. On going out we saw approaching a mob, which Buonaparte computed at five or six thousand men, all in rags, and armed with every sort of weapon, vociferating the grossest abuse, and proceeding with rapid pace towards the Tuileries. 'Let us follow that rabble,' said Buonaparte to me. We got before them, and went to walk in the gardens, on the terrace overlooking the water. From this station he beheld the disgraceful occurrences that ensued. I should fail in attempting to depict the surprise and indignation aroused within him. He could not comprehend such weakness and forbearance. But when the King showed himself at one of the windows fronting the garden, with the red cap which one of the mob had just placed upon his head, Buonaparte could no longer restrain his indignation. 'What madness!' exclaimed he; 'how could they allow these scoundrels to enter? They ought to have blown four or five hundred of them into the air with cannon; the rest would then have taken to their heels.'"--DE BOURRIENNE, tom. i., p. 49. [219] "By eight o'clock in the evening they had all departed, and silence and astonishment reigned in the palace."--MIGNET, tom. i., p. 178. [220] Jomini, Hist. des Guerres de la Révolution, tom. ii., p. 53; Dumont, p. 343. [221] For the letter itself, see Annual Register, vol. xxxiv., p. 206. [222] Thiers, tom. ii., p. 154; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 153. [223] Madame Campan, tom. ii., p. 224. [224] "He was burnt in effigy by the Jacobins, in the garden of the Palais Royal."--PRUDHOMME, tom. iii., p. 131. [225] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 161. After the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly, L'Amourette returned to Lyons, and continued there during the siege. He was afterwards conducted to Paris, condemned to death, and decapitated in January, 1794. The abbé was the author of several works, among others, "Les Délices de la Religion, ou Le Pouvoir de l'Evangile de nous rendre heureux."