“The King will be given a guard, under the command of the commander of the Parisian National Guard, to contribute to his safety and well being.
“The Queen will have a private guard of her own.
“Upon the events of the 21st of June, the Assembly will nominate three commissioners, selected from their whole body, to receive the declaration of the King and Queen.
“The sanction, the acceptance of the King, and all his legislative and executive functions, are suspended.
“The ministers are authorized, each in his own department, and on his own responsibility, to assume the executive power.”
The three commissioners were MM. Touche, Dandré, and Dupont.
There was, therefore, as can be readily seen, positive suspension of the functions of royalty.
This private guard of the Queen’s was a torment to her every day—every hour—every minute.
We have seen Prudhomme astonished that the Queen, having worn-out shoes, should require new ones, and that she should consider it indecent to leave open the doors of her bath and her bed-room.
In fact, the National Guard, frightened of the responsibility placed on their shoulders, literally kept the Queen in eyesight, and compelled her to keep open the doors of her bathing and bed-room. Once, the Queen, inspired with a natural feeling of modesty, having drawn the curtains of her bed the man on guard drew them back, for fear that she should escape by the staircase. On another occasion, the King having come to visit her about one in the morning, and having shut the door of the apartment—not of the Queen, but of his wife—the sentinel thrice opened it, saying, “Shut it as often as you like; I shall open it every time that you shut it!”