Chapter 50

Familiarity of French Servants--Power of the People--Misguided Men--Further Rumours--Who are the People?--An Intruder--A Revolutionary Hero--The Tuileries and the Louvre taken--Sir Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of the Dauphin--The Terrible and the Comic--Trophies of Victory--The Palace of the Archbishop of Paris sacked--Concessions of Charles the Tenth--The Duchesse de Berri--Lord Stuart de Rothesay--Noble Conduct--The Duchesse de Guiche--Her trying Situation--The Provisional Government--The Tri-coloured Flag--Meeting of the Deputies--Bitter Feeling towards the Royal Family Bravery of the Populace--Lafayette and his followers--Scene in the Street--"The Good Cause"--The wealthy M. Laffitte--Valuable Collections at Paris--Courageous Conduct of the Duchesse de Guiche--Her Champions--Attack on the Hôtel of the Duc de Guiche--Comte Alfred d'Orsay--Painful Position, 272.