"I begged him to come and dine with me; but he would only accept the bread which he needed, and a little water, both of which were supplied by the lady to whom we were already indebted for the handkerchief. I urged him at that he refused

On this, he left

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least to take some wine; but also, saying that it cost money. us, without even giving us his name. such disinterestedness worthy of all our admiration? I shall never forgive myself, that I did not follow this patriot soldier; but I was so bewildered by the occurrence, that I knew not what I was doing."

The splendid picture gallery and museum of the Louvre must have been exposed to very imminent danger in the course of this day's proceedings. The troops, who retreated in that direction, fired on the people from the windows, as they passed; and soon afterwards, when their places were occupied by the armed inhabitants, it would not have been wonderful if, in the indignation of the moment, they had committed excesses to be afterwards deplored. A great proportion of the conquerors must of course have consisted of men who had little idea of the value of those treasures which they now perhaps visited for the first time in their lives; and the discrimination they evinced in the acts of violence they were tempted to commit, is therefore so much the more remarkable. The great pic

ture, representing the coronation of Charles X., when in the act of taking the oath to the charter, was literally riddled with musket-balls; more than one unpopular monarch was executed in effigy, by cutting across the canvas of his portrait, where it represented the throat, or by twisting a rope round the neck of his statue. But it is creditable to the popular feeling, that the portrait of Louis XVIII. was spared, by acclamation, expressly on the ground that he was the author of the charter. As soon as the first rush was past, a number of young artists, with M. Prosper Lafaist at their head, placed themselves as sentinels on the museum, and remained at their post, in the midst of considerable danger, until after the evacuation of the Tuileries, and the restoration of the public peace. One of these young men was killed at a window of the great gallery, which he had imprudently approached, to witness the conclusive struggle in the Place du Carrousel.

CHAPTER XIII.

Increased defection of the regular troops-Success of the final popular attack on the Tuileries conducted by General Gerard-Causes that facilitated this result-Dislodgment of two regiments of the Royalists from the garden of the Tuileries-Generosity shown towards the Royal Guard— Release of the persons confined in the cellars of the Tuileries-Detail of their previous sufferings-Cessation of hostilities-General appearance of things at this periodSentiments and conduct of the people.

BEFORE the fall of the Louvre, the regular troops had ceased to act offensively against the people. Two regiments had agreed, both men and officers, to suspend hostilities, and the third, from their manner of obeying the orders they received to fire, were obviously but ill disposed to the task assigned to them. Pressed on all sides by the populace, with cries of "Vive la France! Vive la liberté !" accompanied by appeals to their feelings as fellow-citizens: "Vous, soldats Français, tirer contre des Français !" the 5th, following the example of the 50th and

53d, began to fraternize with the people; while the officers took the more decided step of waiting on M. Lafitte, and taking the oath of fidelity to the provisional government. The whole regiment then proceeded, amidst the acclamations of the people, their drums beating, their bayonets unfixed, and the muzzles of their muskets adorned with foliage, to the Hotel de Ville, where they placed themselves under the command of General Lafayette, and offered to share all the future dangers of the brave inhabitants of Paris.

While this scene was taking place at the Hotel de Ville, General Gerard was leading on the citizens to the final attack on the Tuileries. The popular forces advanced simultaneously in separate columns, one by the Rue Rivoli and the Place du Carrousel, another through the interior of the picture gallery, from which there is a communication with the Pavillon de Flore, in the south-west corner of the palace; and a third, advancing by the left bank of the river, rushed boldly forward along the Pont Royal, in face of a shower of musketry from the southern windows of the pavilion.

This last column, the most formidable of the three, was drawn into an ambuscade at the moment of its reaching the quay on the right side of the river. As formerly noticed, no combatant had been seen on the side of the royalists,

who was not attired in some sort of military uniform; so that a round hat on a man dressed en bourgeois, was considered, at any distance, as a sure indication of the political feelings of the party who approached. In issuing from the bridge, the third column of citizens was suddenly met by a party of officers and soldiers of the French and Swiss Guard, dressed in coloured clothes, and armed with pistols and poignards. Under this disguise, they were naturally mistaken for the head of one of the columns advancing from the other side; and the citizens on the bridge were not undeceived until a number of them fell under the weapons of those who had resorted to this daring and desperate stratagem. Its success was but momentary; the advance of the main body was hastened rather than retarded by an interruption which could not for the moment be accounted for by those behind; the paid assassins of Polignac and Ragusa were caught in their own snare, and, dead or alive, were thrown into the river, to tell the tale of their disasters to their employers at Saint Cloud.

In another instant, the castle was carried at all points. The breach was effected by the three different columns, so nearly at the same moment, that it has been found impossible to assign the priority to any one of them.

The Tuileries, like the Louvre, presented a