[Footnote 2685: Narrative of the Minister Joly (written four days after the event). The king departs about half-past eight.--Cf. Madame Campan, "Mémoires," and Moniteur, XIII. 378.] [Footnote 2686: "Révolution de Paris," number for Aug. 18. On his way a sans-culotte steps out in front of the rows and tries to prevent the king from proceeding. The officer of the guard argues with him, upon which he extends his hand to the king, exclaiming: "Touch that hand, bastard, and you have shaken the hand of an honest man! But I have no intention that your bitch of a wife goes with you to the Assembly; we don't want that whore."--"Louis XVI," says Prudhomme, "kept on his way without being upset by the with this noble impulse."--I regard this as a masterpiece of Jacobin interpretation.] [Footnote 2687: Mortimer-Ternaux, II. 311, 325. 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 particulière," 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, "Mémoires," 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). "Their orders were not to fire until the word was given, and not before the national guard had set the example."] [Footnote 2691: Buchez et Roux, XVI, 443. Narration by Pétion.--Peltier, "Histoire du 10 août."] [Footnote 2692: M. de Nicolay wrote the following day, the 11th of August: "The federates fired first, which was followed by a sharp volley from the château windows." (Le Comte de Fersen et la cour de France. II. 347.)]