"'Ah!' he would say, when weary of play, 'I have not earned the first kiss from mother to-day.' [Illustration: LITTLE TRIANON.] [Illustration: THE DAUPHIN WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY IN THE ASSEMBLY.] "The Revolution came and cast a shadow over Versailles, with all its glory. The royal family was surrounded with enemies, and was in constant terror, and the little dauphin was made unhappy by the sight of his mother's tears. "One day a serving-woman told him that if he would procure some favor for her she would be happy as a queen. "'As happy as a queen!' he answered: 'I know of one queen who does nothing but weep.' "The Revolutionists overthrew the Bastile and the throne, and the members of the royal family were obliged to seek protection in the National Assembly. They were then confined in an old French prison, called the Temple. "The king was tried by the Assembly, was condemned and executed. He deeply loved the dauphin, and parted from him with bitter grief. "After the king's death the dauphin was the principal solace of the queen in her imprisonment. He was at last removed from the queen's apartment by an order of the Committee of Public Safety. It is related that when the guards came to take him away, his mother fought for him until her strength was exhausted, and she fell senseless upon the floor. "After the execution of his mother he was given over to the care of a brutal shoemaker, named Simon, who endeavored to cause his death without committing palpable murder. He was ill-fed, beaten and abused, and received the name of the 'She-wolf's Whelp,' referring to Marie Antoinette. "At this period the police were in the habit of distributing in the streets songs against 'Madame Veto,' as the queen had been called. One of the most infamous of these, as vulgar as it was brutal, had been preserved by Simon. "One day, for the want of a new torture for the child, Simon resolved to make him sing this obscene song against his mother. "'Come along, Capet,' said he, 'here is a new song which you must sing to me.' "He handed the song to the dauphin. The boy saw its meaning, and with all the instincts of a susceptible nature he recoiled from the thought of reviling his mother. He laid it down on the table without saying a word. "Simon arose in wrath. "'I thought I said you must sing.' "'I never will sing such a song.' "'I declare to you that I will kill you if you refuse to obey me.' "'Never!' "Simon caught up an andiron, and threw it at the child with a force that would have proved fatal had he not missed his aim. His passion then gradually subsided, but the boy refused to sing. "One day, after a system of abuses too shocking to relate, Simon seized the dauphin by the ear, and drawing him to the middle of the apartment, said,-- "'Capet, if the Vendéans were to set you at liberty, what would you do to me?' "'I would forgive you,' replied the noble boy.