"_July 1st, 1789, Wednesday._ Nothing; deputation from the States. _Thursday 2d._ Mounted horseback at the gate Du Main to hunt a stag at Port Royal; took one. _Friday 3d._ Nothing. _Saturday 4th._ Hunted a buck at Boutard; took one and shot twenty-nine game. _Sunday 5th._ Vespers and benediction. _Monday 6th._ Nothing. _Tuesday 7th._ Hunted a stag at Port Royal; took two. _Wednesday 8th._ Nothing. _Thursday 9th_. Nothing; deputation from the States. _Friday 10th._ Nothing; answer to the deputation from the States. _Saturday 11th._ Nothing; departure of M. Necker. _Sunday 12th._ Nothing; departure of M. Montmorin, St. Priest and Luzerne. _Sunday 12th._ Nothing; took medicine." Such was the record of the predecessor of Napoleon upon the throne of France when the monarchy was tottering to its foundations.] [Footnote 150: France and its Revolutions, by Geo. Long, Esq., vol. i., 23.] [Footnote 151: "During this day of mourning and consternation the conspirators gave loose to a guilty joy. At Versailles, in that orangery where were lodged, or, to speak more properly, dispersed in ambuscade, the German troops of Nassau, princes, princesses, favorites, male and female, were entertaining themselves with the music of the martial instruments. They were loading the soldiers with caresses and presents; and the latter, amid their brutal orgies, were pleasing themselves with the thought of dispersing the National Assembly, and of subjugating the kingdom. Calamitous night! when the courtiers were dancing to that foreign music, and enjoying the idea of the massacre."--_M. Rabaud de St. Etienne_, vol. i., p. 66.] CHAPTER XIII. STORMING THE BASTILLE. The Assembly petitions the King.--Resolves of the Assembly.--Narrative of M. Dumont.--Scenes in Paris.--The People organize for Self-defense.--The new Cockade.--The Abbé Lefebvre d'Ormesson.--Treachery of the Mayor, Flesselles.--Character of De Launey, Governor of the Bastille.--Sacking the Invalides.--The Bastille Assailed.--Assassination of De Launey and of Flesselles.