[248] "And I," exclaimed the King, "I, too, say 'Vive la Nation!'—its happiness has ever been the dearest object of my heart."—Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 214.
[249] Prudhomme, tom. iii., p. 198; Mad. Campan, vol. ii., p. 247.
[250] "'Oui,' disait-elle à MM. de Briges et de Saint Priest, 'j'aimerais mieux me faire clouer aux murs du château que de choisir cet indigne refuge.'"—Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 216.
[251] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 219; Mad. Campan, vol. ii., p. 247.
[252] Mad. Campan, vol. ii., p. 429; Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 220.
[253] "The Queen told me, that the King had just refused to put on the under-waistcoat of mail which she had prepared for him; that he had consented to wear it on the 14th of July, because it was merely going to a ceremony, where the blade of an assassin was to be apprehended; but that, on a day in which his party might have to fight against the revolutionists, he thought there was something cowardly in preserving his life by such means."—Mad. Campan, vol. ii., p. 243.
[254] Chabot.
[255] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 223.
[256] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 227.
[257] Lacretelle, tom. ix., p. 231; Mignet, tom. i., p. 195; Thiers, tom. ii., p. 263.