Chapter XXV
[1] “Mémoires de la Princesse de Lamballe,” i., p. 342.
[2] Les Gardes du Corps.
[3] Louis Blanc, iii., p. 156, quoting the Procédure du Châtelet.
[4] “Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy,” vol. vii, p. 119.
[5] There is some uncertainty where La Fayette slept that night. Lacretelle says it was at the “Maison du Prince de Foix, fort éloignée du château.” Count Dumas, meaning to be as favorable to him as possible, places him at the Hôtel de Noailles, which is “not one hundred paces from the iron gates of the chapel” (“Memoirs of the Count Dumas,” p. 159). However, the nearer he was to the palace, the more incomprehensible it is that he should not have reached the palace the next morning till nearly eight o’clock, two hours after the mob had forced their entrance into the Cour des Princes.
[6] Weber, i., p. 218.
[7] Le Boulanger (the king), la Boulangère (the queen), et le petit mitron (the dauphin).
[8] “Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créquy,” vii., p. 123.
[9] Weber, ii, p. 226.
[10] “Souvenirs de Quarante Ans,” p. 47.