About nine or ten in the morning the Comte de Haus arrived at St. Menehould, exasperated by the news of the arrest of the King.
Many persons had heard him say, “The King is arrested! We are all lost! But the King shall know that he still has some faithful subjects!”
I have said that, after speaking to me, I had seen him go round to the side of the horse-pond.
As the royal carriage passed, he presented arms to the august prisoners, after the fashion of a sentinel.
The King recognised him, pointed him out to the Queen, and returned his salute.
M. Dampierre then put his horse to a gallop, and disappeared at the Rue de l’Abreuvoir so as to get in advance of the King’s carriage, stopped in the most public part of the town, at the corner of the Rue de l’Abreuvoir, and presented arms afresh.
The King saluted him a third time.
Then pushing his horse through the crowd on the side where I was, he approached the carriage.
It was going at this time up the Fleurion at a foot pace.